Farewell to Work

GeneralCarlos1 August 20120

This is a small essay written in Simplified that appeared in the June 1963 issue of Today’s Secretary.

Attachment: farewell-to-work.pdf

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Carlos 7 December 2025 at 9:54 pm on The Selfish GiantYou're welcome, Susan! I'm glad you loved the story!
Susan Johnston 7 December 2025 at 9:00 am on The Selfish GiantOh my! What a beautiful story for Christmas and always ~ thank you Carlos. I will attempt the Willa Cather
Carlos 2 December 2025 at 12:07 am on Penmanship Practice – December 2025You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it!
David Ludwig 1 December 2025 at 8:23 pm on Penmanship Practice – December 2025Thanks Carlos! That was a sweet, easy to read little story!
Lee 29 November 2025 at 5:15 pm on Gregg Shorthand Television Course?Haha! That's great! I'm glad it's in good hands. Lee
Carlos 29 November 2025 at 3:11 pm on Gregg Shorthand Television Course?Well, you're ahead of me, 😂! I bought the pamphlet and was planning to write a post about it once
Nicholas Salkilld 28 November 2025 at 5:23 am on Noodler’s Pitman “Light Saber” fountain penInteresting but a bit weird. Might have been better to use black ink. I thought at first that with such
Lee 28 November 2025 at 4:13 am on Noodler’s Pitman “Light Saber” fountain penIt's a fascinating video. Lamy makes a "calligraphy pen" with a long barrel. I bought one years ago, and found
Carlos 27 November 2025 at 9:44 pm on Noodler’s Pitman “Light Saber” fountain penVery interesting. I don't think this particular pen will work for Gregg Shorthand because the nib is flexible, but if
Lee 23 November 2025 at 4:19 am on Types of notebooksThat's amazing detective work! Lots of glimpses into a world that doesn't exist any more. I had to look up
Erik 22 November 2025 at 9:14 pm on Types of notebooksThere is also this snippet from 1849 Reporter's Companion (Pitman's system) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnyx7a&seq=19 which suggests from the method of page turning
Erik 22 November 2025 at 8:51 pm on Types of notebooksAh interesting. My memory is once again spotty but IIRC correctly OP had claimed to be associated with some sort
Lee 22 November 2025 at 7:15 pm on Types of notebooksThat's the same image that someone asked about in the "Shorthand Writing" Facebook group. I don't think it's authentically from