Earn rice, learn vocabulary

Vocabulary tests are generally a drag.  Most of the time you walk away from a test feeling like a dingus for not knowing the meaning of a word like “pecuniary.”  Making up sentences for vocabulary words is equally uninspiring.  It’s high time that studying vocabulary words became something fun, something meaningful (wait – isn’t studying [...]

Stuff Happens

Most of you who have been coming to the library’s teen group meetings have heard me talk about moving… I just did it a month and a half ago, all the way from southern California to Washington (*gasp*).  It wasn’t a horrifically long move across the country, with days and days of driving, but it [...]