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Navigating Life's
A River Worth Riding:
A free on-line fourteen-week course in living based upon Lynn Marie Sager's powerful book, A River Worth
Riding: Fourteen Rules for Navigating Life.
Click here for boarding...
Navigating Life's
Historybusters:
Historically "Accurate" Films
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Historybusters is dedicated to helping
young people develop critical thinking, understanding, and a love of history through film. Every movie on Historybusters has
been hand picked for historical accuracy and entertainment value. Why? Because the best way to learn history is through story.
After all, that's what history truly is---a really wonderful story. Our criteria? If a movie is accurate enough to help someone
pass a test, and it's still enjoyable---you'll find it here. Along with Weekly Movie Reviews, Kid Friendy History, Historybusters'
Wall of Truth, our Historical Movie Directory, a Sample AP History Study Guide, links to AP History Study questions, Historybusters'
Movie Clubs and more. Click here to visit Historybusters
Navigating Life's
Two Question
Personality Test:
Ever want to learn about your personality type? This free on-line personality tests shows
you how to gage anybody's personality type with only two questions. Amazingly accurate, it is based on the "Four Humors" personality
assessment examined in A River Worth Riding. To give it a try, click here...
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Course Excerpts
Fun Stuff
Word of the day
Dictionaries
Thesaurus
Word Games
more...
Fun educational games
for grades K - 8
Six interactive games
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Navigator's Blog
Where I get to rant about whatever's on my mind, and you get to post comments and questions...
What's the difference between one million and one trillion?
Our Answer? Well, let's get a sense of how much one million is before
we tackle a trillion. There are 60 minutes in an hour, 1440 minutes in a day, and 525,600 minutes in a year. Double 525,600
and you get 1,051,200. In other words, one million minutes is 35 days less than two years. If you took your age and
divided it in two, you'd know about how many million minutes you've been alive. Now, the difference between a million and
a billion is three more zeros. So, a million minutes takes about 2 years, a billion minutes takes about 2,000 years,
and a trillion minutes takes about 2,000,000 years. That's a big difference. Think about that difference the
next time you hear people discussing the U.S Federal budget.
When should I start showing my children movies about
history?
Our Answer?The sooner you start
the better; children crave a sense of place and time. Or, you could just wait until your kid’s first year of World History
and expect him or her to cram a lifetime of learning into one semester. It’s your choice.
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What
makes
a
life
worth
living
?
Life is often compared to a great river that flows through the banks of time. Living
is like navigating that river. We are born into our parents’ boats. We grow up on a river defined by our parents’
lives. If our parents have happy lives, our lives tend to have happy head starts. If our parents have lives that handle the
river well, then we have good models upon which to build our own lives. But if our parents have leaky lives, we tend to spend
the rest of our lives bailing.
The lives we build tend to resemble our parent’s lives; after all, we build them based upon the
designs we grew up with, using whatever happened to float by. Too often, only prayer and determination hold our lives together.
Eventually, we must learn to build and navigate our own lives—often without coming ashore. If
we survive, we begin to notice other individuals and we want to share a piece of ourselves with them. We get caught up in
the journeys of other people, and we forget which way the river intends for us to go.
The world has become full of people building their own boats
and navigating an evermore-turbulent stream. No wonder we so often crash.
We need to step back and take a look at the river; learn to read its secrets. When do we paddle hard?
When do we let the currents take us? When do we pull up to the bank and survey the stream? (from the introduction
to A River Worth Riding, copyright Lynn Marie Sager 2005)
Based upon Lynn Marie Sager's A River Worth Riding: Fourteen Rules for Navigating Life, this website examines fourteen rules designed to help you navigate life. Study one rule at a time,
give it one week's strict attention, and leave the rest of the rules to "their ordinary chance." Taken together, these rules
make for a worthwhile ride.
You'll find links to each of the weekly rules at boarding...
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