With the rise of peer-to-peer payment systems such as PayPal, Venmo, Zelle and several others, there’s rarely a need to write a check these days. Even so, checks aren’t completely extinct yet. Maybe ...

Bonnie Honeycutt is a New York Times best-selling editor who also works as a freelance journalist, ghost writer, and writing coach. She has managed academic and scientific journals, and worked as an ...