by Dwane | Jan 27, 2025 | Tip of the Week
LEGO Tip of the Week #4: How to Find That One Piece You are Missing Have you heard of Brick Owl? I hadn’t. One of the great things about running a Bricks and Minifigs store is talking with you! We have discovered so much just from listening to customers. ...
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...
by Dwane | Nov 23, 2024 | Tip of the Week
I tend to be a bit scatterbrained. I misplace things often. Wallet, keys, phone, kids, students, pens, lego bricks. You know, the usual stuff. Years ago, I learned a trick from a book. (I cannot remember the name of the book, as it turns out.) Whenever I put...
by Dwane | Nov 16, 2024 | Tip of the Week
These days, I do not rely on Google. I learned the hard way. Twice Google shut my website down. The second time the company shut my site down, they locked me out until I signed up for a monthly subscription. I wish I had that kind of power. I teach languages for a...
by Dwane | Nov 14, 2024 | Latin, Motivation, Online Classes, Q&A
by Dwane | Nov 10, 2024 | Tip of the Week
After sending an email last Saturday, many of you wrote to wish me luck opening a new store. I received this note from Erik: Mr. Dwane, Just wanted to quickly thank you for all the great tips throughout all these years, and wish you all the best with the opening of...
by Dwane | Nov 2, 2024 | Tip of the Week
It’s election season in America. Soooo… I recommend turning off all social media, all news, and all talk radio. The 24 hour news cycle is negative by nature. Negativity sells. Fear sells. All advertisers know this. In the newspaper business years ago, there was...
by Dwane | Oct 26, 2024 | Tip of the Week
I am running on empty these days. Pretty tired quite often. Even now, as I type this tip of the week. As most of you know, I decided to open a Lego store (Bricks and Minifigs) in Birmingham, Alabama. Vestavia Hills, actually. A little south of Birmingham. Long...
