Is that a handcuff on his right wrist?

Living in Ohio (midwest U.S) its not entirely a yes or no and more of a “it depends”. Ive noticed older people assume shoes on but anyone under 40 will either ask or assume shoes off at the door. Theres also a layer of midwest nice to the whole exchange of not wanting to inconvenience the other person, so you get situations where a party will start with everyone wearing shoes, but end with everyone shoeless.

From my experience living in the midwest older people tend to assume shoes on is okay while younger folks either ask what is preferred or assume they should take them off. The entire exchange at the door is very midwest of not wanting to be rude or inconvenience the other person.

The slant in print writing I think stems from how curisve is (was?) taught in U.S elementary schools. I recall getting the very distinct advice to tilt my paper 45° for cursive writing and it ended up becoming a habit that carried over into my print writing.

Thanks, but dont give me too much credit. My handwriting is more towards the sloppy side than proper, haha. Im frequently asked “what does this say” when others try to read my hand written notes.

In all honestly, if you arent getting that question from other people often, or at all, (“what does this say?”), then your pendmanship is generally good even if it has little quirks like a slightly more rounded ‘a’ or short stemmed ‘d’.

I think it looks really good.

I recommend exagerating the straight line on the lower case ‘a’ a bit more to distinguish it from ‘o’. In context of the words you wrote it’s easy to see when an ‘a’ is ‘a’ and ‘o’ is ‘o’, but words like ‘sang’ may look like either ‘sang’ or ‘song’.

For the lower case ‘d’ i recommend extending the straight line a tad bit higher. It still looks distinctly like a ‘d’, but it’s very, very, close to looking like a lower case ‘a’.

Similar recommendation for the lower case ‘p’, extend the straight line just a tad bit more below the letter.

I think another comment recommended something similar for lower case ‘h’, but i actually think the way you write them is just fine.

However, overall, it looks a hell of a lot cleaner than what most native english speakers write. It’s for sure cleaner than mine, but i use a mix of different letter styles.