Brainerd, MN

To the students of life -

As we 'round the bend in the school year and start chugging towards the Spring finish line, we know that there will be obstacles ahead that have to be seriously considered now - FINAL EXAMS
Do you totally freak out on test day or are you a last minute crammer? How has that been working for you so far?

Do you want less stress, higher grades and more return for your time and effort? Studying is the key - not studying your X- Box - studying subjects that you are actually enrolled in and hoping to get credit for taking.

Here is a handy list of some sites on studying and test taking.

How to Study

http://www.how-to-study.com

Test Taking Tips

http://www.testtakingtips.com

Study Skills Self Help Information

http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html

Six Steps to Smarter Studying

http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/school/studying.html

With the present economic troubles, we have lost a few Brainerd/Baxter businesses. I was pleased to hear that Papa Murphy's in Baxter has made a committment to the area by buying the building that their business is in presently. We often purchase their delicious pizzas for take home to bake perfection. I will even stop in on a busy work day to get a salad to eat at my desk at Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes where I am a REALTOR/Staging Specialist. Yes, I usually work right through lunch but if you have a home you want to list or buy - we can eat lunch out or just have coffee. Brainerd/Baxter has many places for that as well.

photo by; Baclava

For those of you who know me, I am quite anti-smoking and have several dead and dying relative reasons. Besides, smoke gives me an instant migrane headache and sometimes even the smell gets to me. However, when I get good news I like to pass it on. This good news is for smokers or at the very least their survivors. The Phillip Morris company will probably be ordered to pay more than $130 million to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer. This could be history in the making as a trail will be blazed for about 8000 other cases with similar circumstances in Florida alone.

So if you've got 'em smoke em and your survivors could make millions. Of course, there are no guarantees and I am not qualified to offer legal advice. This is more like a suggestion.

photo by loreli