It's Handwriting Day, and Chris came across this old page of my late father's childhood handwriting. It is an arithmetic test that he wrote in January 1959, which means he was 12 years old (turning 13 in June of that year). It's funny and interesting to see because as an adult he almost exclusively printed, rather messily and in all caps, and he even usually signed his name with just initials. It's also funny because we no longer use any of the measurements on which he was being tested! Some of it is like a foreign language to us, lol.
in those days we were supposed to write cursive. if you don't you get to stand in the corner or made to write "i will write in cursive all the time" so many times. these days, i write in printed letters, with no capital letters.
January 25th, 2026
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