Quietly, without fanfare, Amazon unveiled the ability to loan your Kindle books for 14 days. Not all books can be loaned but loaning your previously purchased books couldn’t be easier. Just simply navigate to the products page and click the “loan this book” button. It shows up where you would normally see a purchase button. [...]

Our kids are at that age where learning to read involves learning common words. These common words are often called sight words or high frequency words. You can readily buy flash cards but I decided to make my own. Below are links to 8 different documents with common words increasing in difficulty. The documents are [...]

My wife loves a couple of glass hurricanes for protecting her candles. Unfortunately, they have a large recess at their bottom. If the candle burns down far enough that it melts into this recess, it forms a wax plug that isn’t easy to remove. You can carefully chip at it and it will break apart [...]