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     How much reading do you do? How much of what you read, do you retain? Do you read fast? How do you read?  Recently these are thoughts that have been occurring. Mostly about me but then I began to get curious about all of you. Up until recently I have been, and probably always will be, for somethings, a mouth reader. By that I mean I mouth the words as I reader almost like I am reading aloud, to myself.      However, recently I have returned to reading with just my eyes. It's much faster. What started this, is that Kindle has a ruler that you can customize and move up and down the page as you read. When I was 9, my mom taught me to read this way and I was getting good at, when one of my teachers stopped me from reading that way.  I know, oh no, here he goes again blaming one of his teachers for stopping him from doing something but hear me out.     In fifth grade we were doing speed reading.  It was timed reading and we had one ...

How Do You Eat An Elephant?

       I am sure that most of you have heard this one and I am sure it’s obvious to all of us but let me tell you why this came to me today.   This weekend was the weekend that my wife, Bridget, and I decided to close the pool for the winter. Honestly, for me opening, and closing, the pool is the most difficult and trying task, that I must do every year. I’ve even made so difficult that one year I had to close it myself. What likely makes this whole task difficult, is that I have had to help open and close a pool, since I was 14, and I have probably just made it harder because it was never a simple task during my teen years. This weekend, Bridget had to work, Saturday morning. So, I had to begin the closing down process by myself. Now over the last couple of weeks we have had the heater off and now the pool is cold. There hasn’t been a cover on the pool and the leaves have been falling and there are plenty of leaves in the bottom of the pool. Obviously, going ...