by Dwane | Feb 8, 2025 | Latin
Help With Henle Latin For years—no exaggeration—I’ve received emails and comments from people begging for help with Henle Latin. I’ve taught the series for years, guiding my students through First Year Latin, Second Year Latin, and parts of Third Year Latin by Robert...
by Dwane | Feb 10, 2024 | Latin, Visual Latin
Visual Latin and the Latin Endings From time to time I get questions about the complicated Latin endings. Students want to know if there is a place to find them all. Turns out, there is. If you go here, and scroll down, you will find some Latin charts I made some...
by Dwane | Jul 11, 2025 | Motivation
Possessions are problematic I have been reading (again) Early Retirement Extreme: A philosophical and practical guide to financial independence. This is the most hardcore guide to frugality I’ve ever read — like a Special Forces field manual for cutting expenses. In...
by Dwane | Jul 9, 2025 | Q&A
How do I add sub-accounts for each of my children? Have multiple children? To give each their own account and track progress separately, just follow these steps: After signing in to your account, click on the Members menu and go to Account Info. Next, click on the...
by Dwane | Jul 9, 2025 | Q&A
How Do I Update my Credit Card Information? Go to the Members menu and choose Account Info. After that, click on the Subscriptions link on the resulting page, and you’ll see a screen like this… Click the Update link circled in yellow above, and...
by Dwane | Mar 3, 2025 | Q&A, Visual Latin
Visual Latin | Lesson 20: Captivus? I received this question: My 6th grader is working through Visual Latin and really enjoying it, however we are often tripped up on the translation portions. Curious about one thing in lesson 20C. Lot captivus est. – Lot is a...
by Dwane | Feb 15, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #316: A Simple Way to Clean Up Your Camera Roll If you’re like me (and I know I am), your phone is overflowing with thousands of photos. Over the Christmas break, I tried to clean up my camera roll and found the process overwhelming. I needed an...
by Dwane | Feb 1, 2025 | English
Tip of the Week #314: Learn English with Asterix the Gaul For some time, I’d been thinking of resurrecting my old YouTube channel. Hadn’t posted anything in nine years. Honestly, I grew weary of the “Latin perfect pronunciation police”. ...
by Dwane | Jan 25, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #313: Wordle Pretty sure I am late to this party, but if you have not heard of it, Wordle is fun. Wordle is an online word game. Players get six attempts to guess a five-letter word. Every day, there is only one solution. The entire world...
by Dwane | Jan 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Q&A – Visual Latin Lesson 20: Exercises 17 and 18 I received this question: For questions 17 and 18 on the 20B worksheet in the workbook, the question’s answers don’t make any sense. For 17, “Eam videt,” is said to mean “He sees her.” Where does this “He”...
by Dwane | Jan 21, 2025 | Latin
Live Online Henle Latin Classes For more than a decade, I took students through the Henle Latin series. Unfortunately, I no longer teach Henle Latin in live classes. Still, those previous classes remain available on my site. They are available 24/7. If you are...
by Dwane | Jan 18, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #312: How to Stay Warm During the Winter During the winter, I like to drink hot drinks. Keeps me warm. I like coffee, but am trying to cut back. I like hot chocolate, but try to avoid too much sugar. Sugar, especially in the form of chocolate, is...
by Dwane | Jan 14, 2025 | Lego
2025 Bricks and MiniFigs Calendars Get a 2025 Calendar! Check out our new 2025 calendars! Each calendar includes monthly coupons, and creative Lego pictures. Use the coupons in any Bricks and MiniFigs store nationwide. Each calendar is $20, or free if you spend...
by Dwane | Jan 11, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #311: Forget Perfection. Aim for Progress. Ten years ago, on January 10, 2015, I sent out the first tip of the week. My tip of the week today is this. Just start. Do not wait until everything is perfect. Just start and make it up as you go along. ...
by Dwane | Jan 11, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #311: Forget Perfection. Aim for Progress Ten years ago, on January 10, 2015, I sent out the first tip of the week. My tip of the week today is this. Just start. Do not wait until everything is perfect. Just start and make it up as you go along. ...
by Dwane | Jan 8, 2025 | Education, Q&A
How do I add sub-accounts for each of my children? If you have multiple children and want each one to have an account on the site to keep track of their progress separately, here’s how: After signing in to your account, click on the Members menu and go to...
by Dwane | Jan 4, 2025 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #310: How to Set and Hit Your Goals If you have multiple children and want each one to have an account on the site to keep track of their progress separately, here’s how: After signing in to your account, click on the Members menu and go to...
by Dwane | Dec 29, 2024 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #309 How to Eat Cheetos Without Making a Mess Years ago, one of my kids discovered she really liked Hot Cheetos (not the official name, but that’s what we call them at home). She also likes to be clean. Those two really do not mesh so well. She...
by Dwane | Dec 24, 2024 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #308: How to Free up Storage on Your Phone My phone is constantly running out of storage. The problem is, it overflows with photos To free up some storage, I have begun decluttering. I grew up before everything went digital, and I sometimes miss the...
by Dwane | Dec 23, 2024 | Ebook, Goals, Motivation
Goals: Give Yourself a Day Off Last year, I wrote a book on goal setting. I also taught a four week course on the process of goal setting. Here are those classes: Week 1: https://vimeo.com/980722681/9a55a6f125 Week 2: https://vimeo.com/984623822/aac7465d62 Week...
by Dwane | Dec 21, 2024 | Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week #307: Include Batteries Quick tip this week This Christmas, if you are giving a gift that requires batteries, wrap the batteries with the gift. This quick and easy tip should eliminate the disappointment of receiving a gift with no power. ...
by Dwane | Dec 19, 2024 | Motivation, Tip of the Week
Whew. I have not posted on my blog in months. I miss it. I miss writing. I am not currently teaching any classes. Christmas break. This is giving me time to catch up, and time to start blogging again. It’s been a wild year for me. In February, Google shut...
by Dwane | Dec 7, 2024 | Tip of the Week
#306 – December 7, 2024: How to Find the Price of a Car We had a car go down this week. Since my family lives in car-dependent Tennessee, we had to replace it. Fun. My wife and I had already been looking for a good deal. We were able to find a ten year old car to...
by Dwane | Dec 3, 2024 | Lego
How to Make a Simple Christmas Wreath Each Saturday, I send out a Lego Tip of the Week! Since I cannot have a blog on our store site (https://bricksandminifigs.com/vestaviahills-al/), I will simply post those tips here on my own site. Use the Instructions in the...
by Dwane | Nov 30, 2024 | Tip of the Week
I often make mistake when I type. After all, I have Type-O blood. Heh, heh. But, I recently found a web extension that reads pages aloud. It’s a great way to catch errors you might miss. Whether you are writing for work or school, before hitting publish or...
by Dwane | Nov 26, 2024 | Lego
Hello, Birmingham! At the beginning of the month, on November 2, we celebrated our grand opening! We are thrilled to be in the Birmingham area! We have enjoyed meeting so many of you over the past few weeks! We are still trying to get the word out. Feel free to...
