Penmenship

I have always been fascinated by great Penmenship. I have never taken a class in anything related except for first through third grade handwriting lessons. And third grade was where cursive was taught. I have found out through some research that a modernized version of the Palmer method was essentially what we were taught.

 

I was always in awe of my mother's handwriting. The nuns at St Peter's in Quincy, Illinois, taught her an older version Palmer. 

I noticed the difference in style, especially in the way the lowercase letter 'r' was made, and I was a bit confused in my third grade mind, which was locked to a rigid 'there is always one right way do do something,' as to how there could be a difference in something as objective as handwriting. (of course my engineer-father always printed everything in all Caps)

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