What do you collect? Stamps? Recipes? Coins? Art? Is there value in your collections? Does your collection appreciate? Or do you just appreciate your collection? Is there a purpose to the collection? More than I really like that stuff? In other words, what is your connection to your collection? Me, I collect books. I always have. I earned my Girl Scout badge on collecting, by displaying my collection of Nancy Drew Novels. That was in the 4th grade. My desire to own books

Jumping to Conclusions I’m a biased parent. We all are bias towards those we love, but my kid is amazing. When he was five or six, back in the early 90s, the company I was working for offered to sell their used IBM 8088 desk top computers for $100. We were replacing them with 286s, which were much faster, and used mini 3inch floppy disks, instead of the 5 ¼ diskettes used on the older models. The company even offered payroll deduction for four easy payments of $25. Well, m

There is a difference between comprehending and decoding. Remember when you were younger and you came to a word you didn’t know? You were told to sound out the word. This skill of sounding out a word is called decoding. It happens by knowing the letters and the sounds each letter represents. Then, put them together and speak the word. That is decoding. It is only a part of reading. It is not the main goal of reading. The reason we read is to comprehend someone else’s thoug