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Sharp minds for little children A first grade school teacher had 25 students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the first half of a wellknown proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It’s hard to believe these were actually done by first graders.
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First of all, my favorite story of the week . . .
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Valentine’s day is almost here and how many valentines will you have? In elementary school we traded Valentine cards. We actually had a big box and we stuffed it full of valentine cards to our classmates. If we received 20 or 30 valentine cards then we felt good because we had a lot of valentines.
Read moreIt wasn’t until the middle of 1942 that we Centrahoma folk realized we faced yet another wartime hardship. The great coffee shortage. Seemed like it affected our fellow Americans too. We were each buying and consuming 20 pounds of coffee per year in 1942. But no worry. Grocery stores in American were well stocked. Big warehouses had it stacked up and nobody, but President Roosevelt seemed worried about it.
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Do. Not. Give. Up. Giving up creates hopelessness. And hopelessness creates a huge black hole of depression and deadness in you. When you quit caring about anything in life, you stop living, even though your heart continues beating.
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