[Kathleen]

Catlic school was more difficult back then, we had to score 70 to pass. I took 2 years of Latin, the first year I didn't get it, the second year I loved it. It was very useful for learning word derivatives.

Typing was another story...I remember typing on an old IBM Selectric and having it blow up on me during class. The thing was smoking, and I wasn't even typing that fast. :)

Candy is asleep in front of my desk, she's running and snorting like she's going somewhere fast. She is so cute.

[lodwick]

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion and cannot be recited in schools.

Just in from SanFrancisco.

[palo verde]

it is helpful to know the latin root for words
I wish I did
sometimes it helps my understanding
one day I realized encourage has the french word coeur (heart) as its basis
so encourage must mean give heart to
and discourage means take the heart right out of it
after that I was very careful about discouraging anyone
cause I didn't want to take the heart right out of them
Love, Palo