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Are you familiar with the Accelerated Reader system?  This is a system put in place in some elementary schools in an effort to get more kids to read.  In this system books are assigned a point...

Rare is the person who enjoyed writing definitions in school.  I know I didn’t care for it.  The whole thing just seemed so tedious.  It felt almost like a punishment, something akin to...

Jeanne Robertson was an athlete, comedian, and all-around good person. I had the pleasure of hearing her speak several years ago. I think her most famous story is the “seven-up” pound cake story. I’ll...

How many of you every owned or operated a Polaroid camera?  They were all the rage “back in the day.”  Those cameras allowed people to almost instantly see the pictures they took, rather than...

What if you could go back in time and be a participant in any part of the bible?  What part would you choose to witness?  There are definitely some things I would not like to be a part of, but I can think...

Three Questions Remember when you were in school?  You started out in grade school (or kindergarten, etc.) of course.  Think back for a minute.  What was it like?  What kind of “classes”...

Isn’t it funny how you don’t notice things that are very obvious to others, simply because you have grown used to them?  Here is an example from my life. I used to live in a house with a borrowed...

Walt Disney once said “The trick of making things move on film is what got to me.”  He was talking about his fascination with animation.  Disney was 18 when he first saw an ad for a position...

There are lots of things in history that have happened that we would call ironic.  A great example of this is gunpowder.  It was discovered/created by Chinese alchemists.  They were looking...

“There is no such thing as a stupid question.”   You have probably heard that before right?  I remember hearing it a lot from teachers in school.  But is that really true?  Are there...