River Remembrance: The “Trip Before the Trip” I didn’t speak of it much (except in the earliest blogs), but before my River Trip began in Three Forks, MT, I took time to see parts of South Dakota and Wyoming that I’d never seen.  Here, in less than 2 dozen slides, catch glimpses of Sioux Falls, the Badlands, Mt Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, Devil’s Tower, and Little Big Horn Battlefield.  See PreTrip.

Krazy Pic 1   I’m NOT a shopper, but here’s a sale I don’t want to miss!  See Clearance

Krazy Pic 2  Not 9?  Not 11?  See LimitedAccess

Super Bowl Tickets!!  What to do if your Super Bowl tickets coincide with the day of your wedding?!  I suppose I should have seen this ‘ingenious’ solution coming, but I didn’t, and I laughed out loud!  Your reaction may vary by gender – see Tickets.

New Brain Teasers  The year’s first Brain Teasers are here.  We’ll run this set through February and add some each mailing, of course.  The first four are posted today – 3 are repeats (from January 2015), and one of them is a no-wrong-answer starter, so get your answers in.  See BT17.1.  (HINT:  Be watching for prizes and other goodies next time.)

Covering Material or Promoting Learning?  Many of you know Dr. Terry Goodman, or remember reading his Guest Voices pieces last year.  One of my favorite educational comments of Terry’s triggered some thoughts about the trap of ‘covering material’ in the classroom. The column appeared last week.  See PromotingLearning.

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HumorousThought for the Week

Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana.

   Groucho Marx

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