Category Archives: The Things I’ve Recently Learned

I have a hard time remembering the difference between the words Effect and Affect. So here are some ideas. Effect means to make a change or to alter something. Effect is when I make a lot of effort to accomplish … Continue reading →

A couple of months ago, I attended Story@Home story telling / family history conference. (http://www.cherishbound.com/blog/storyathome/ ) I found the conference to be very good and had valuable information. Here are the last of my notes about blogging. – Content is … Continue reading →

I hope this lesson will be of use for family devotionals, youth ministries or family home evenings. Tonight’s object lesson is comparing the sharp edges of knives to trials in our lives. There is a wide variety of challenges we … Continue reading →

I had an appointment with a vacuum salesman today. I watch the presentation and he’ll shampoo two rooms to my house. “Sure,” I said. A previous salesman’s from a different vacuum company had given a presentation about a year before … Continue reading →

Well, working on more works to help on my spelling. Here are the two latest: Restaurant: eating establishment I want to rest from my aunt’s rants by eating at the restaurant REST AUnt’s RANTS Continent: large land mass conTINent: For … Continue reading →

Well I finished with my next online corse provided by my company. It’s great they give us this opportunity and I’ve been please that I’ve been good on my goal to study for a half hour each weekday. Today’s topci … Continue reading →

I have had the opportunity to visit a couple of different countries and I have found that when a little preparation precedes the trip you have a much more enjoyable trip. A couple of trips to places such as London, … Continue reading →

I absolutely love the smell of potpourri and I really love the aroma of cinnamon pine cones that usually pop up during Christmas. I hope that today’s object lesson will be of use to youth ministries, home devotionals and family … Continue reading →

My Goulash post for Friday is to announce the story telling retreat in June. Here are the details: We will be having the roots and wings retreat on June friday and saturday june 1st and 2nd. What I need from … Continue reading →

As you have probably noticed by now, I make sure that many of my blogs are quite self-serving. I am a bad speller so my weekly Thursday blog is on how I try to remember how to spell words I … Continue reading →