Back to School!

[mdehners]

A couple of weeks ago my younger brother was visiting our surviving old brother and he HAD to share with me that Gary(older) couldn't read my b-day care I sent him. He offered some books his work had him do a few yrs ago when HIS handwriting was bad enough that the boss noticed;>!
While it was annoying to hear, I'd noticed my handwriting had fallen AGAIN. Back in the early 90's my medical-influenced handwriting got so bad I took a calligraphy class(Uncil btw) and my writing markedly approved.
Sadly, the almost 30 yrs since it pretty well sucks so I'm doing the work from those books. Honestly, it hasn't taken much and my writing is much improved. It's also awakened my love of calligraphy.
I don't know if I still have the workbooks from my Uncil class(if so it's in one of those boxes waiting for a bookcase;>!) but I've ordered one on Spencerian and on Copperplate. I'm really interested in English Roundhand(what the Declaration of Independence was written in) but am not having much luck there.
What started out as something kind of insulting has turned into a pleasure I'd forgotten decades ago....
Cheers,
Pat

Comments

[weofodthignen]

Heh :-) Good for you, and good for fine muscle coordination.

From 2 different schools, I wound up with 2 forms of handwriting: I must have been one of the last to be taught Copperplate cursive in English schools (albeit with simplified capitals and r), and then my grammar/high school taught me Italics. The former was a fantastic advantage for note-taking and timed essays, and the latter, since without the special pen and the weird e and I it's basically clear printing) proved extremely useful for writing on black/whiteboards, especially in ESL, where the students really couldn't be expected to be able to parse American cursive, or any cursive really, esp. from the back of a classroom.

I also taught myself Sütterlin (Fraktur cursive). Would not recommend unless you want illegibility.