Thoughts and stories, by Pal

Great advice for parents who want to help their children succeed in life! ACT/SAT Test Prep Tips from a Family With Three Perfect Scores Published on September 20, 2017 I was still half asleep when Stefan raced into my room, "I just checked my ACT scores online and I got a perfect score! But,” he confessed, “I also opened the cereal box from the wrong end this morning. So I'm not really all that." We've had three happy mornings like that over the last five years and FAR more boxes opened incorrectly than I can count. When you have three kids in a row who receive a perfect score on the SAT/ACT test, people clamor for advice. I'm happy to share, but you should know a perfect score doesn't guarantee acceptance into Harvard or even a mention at your school's senior awards night. And it doesn't make you a better, nicer person, but the path to get there might help with that. A perfect score will boost your odds of acceptance to hundreds of ex...

                             MY LIFE HISTORY  BY RUTH ALLEN MILES # 1                                (As she wrote it, partly from journals)  Her own story is quite extensive, with many chapters.  I'll include many of them in the days to come, as her life was truly inspiring, and full of wisdom.      I, Ruth Allen Miles, was born on Sunday morning, on May 10th, 1908, about 8:a.m. in Panguitch, Garfield, Utah, at home.  Strangely enough I was never interested about the details of my birth when anyone was alive who would have known.  The only details I remember having been told was that my mother had a very hard delivery, and nearly lost her life to give me mine.  A Dr. Clark, I believe was the attending physician.   Mother had been told 4 years before that to attempt to have an...

These are pictures through the years of the identical twins, Blaine D and Wayne D Eckman.  Blaine was about 15 minutes older than Wayne, and born at home.  Read of them first in blog # 3.   Then their father Roy Waldamer Eckman's story is in blog # 93.  Their mother Gladys Dayton Eckman is told about in blogs #106 and #107.  More of their lives will come in the future.  This is a record of photos through the ages!   Some of them have been in previous blogs, but it is nice to get them together here, chronologically.   They were born on September 18, 1930, and Blaine passed away suddenly at age 68, on March 19, 1999, and Wayne is now 83 years old, March 2014.  Joyce is still living, in St. David, Arizona, near their daughter Janise Wooten. Some are copied from our book, and I will rewrite the captions, as they are hard to read.  Above it says "The twins about the age of the Turkey incident, and Ronald about age 1. ...