Motivational Pictures - All Funny De Motivationals DivineCaroline: Relationships, Body & Soul, Home, Style, Parenting, and Community for Women Dragos Roua - Brilliantly Better — The Personal Development Blog handwriting tips You’ve decided you want to improve your handwriting and you’re probably hoping a fountain pen will do the trick -- maybe a friend told you it would. Maybe you’re just adventurous and you want to try your hand at calligraphy (or you might, once your handwriting improves). Good for you! A fountain pen may make your writing look a bit better, but if your writing looks as if frenzied chickens got loose on the page, chances are this won’t be enough. After coaching handwriting and teaching calligraphy over the years, I’ve learned to see the characteristics of those who’ll be able to pick up the necessary motions quickly from those who’ll have to work a bit harder. Crampy, uneven letters are often the result of drawing the letters with the fingers rather than using the whole arm to write. People who inevitably have trouble with handwriting and calligraphy write with their fingers. If you use the right muscle groups, your writing will have a smooth, easy flow and not look tortured. Fig. 1. Top
Motivation & Inspiration from The Daily Motivator® Official Home of the Free Hugs Campaign - Inspired by Juan Mann - Home Gothic Clothing Store - Heavy Red - StumbleUpon Music video to White Stripes song features students from Flints Michigan Sch... Vince Fedoroff/APThe White Stripes perform in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, in June 2007. FLINT, Michigan — The Detroit rock duo The White Stripes had kept their website silent since using it to announce in February that they would be breaking up for good. Then, a post appeared early this month. “Check out the video that our friends at D-PAN (Deaf Professional Artists Network) did for our song ‘Were Going To Be Friends.’” Click the link and Grand Blanc 14-year-old Kassie Ross appears on screen as the song’s opening notes ring out. Ross communicates the lyrics using American Sign Language. “Fall is here / hear the yell / back to school / ring the bell.” On YouTube, the video has more than 369,000 hits. Ross, a 14-year-old Grand Blanc resident, never thought appearing in a music video would be in the cards for her. “When I lost my hearing, I had no idea how I could listen to music anymore and I was pretty upset,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Of course I couldn’t turn them down,” Ross said.