When I was in High School, we were allowed to take “electives” to round out our schedule.  What to do… what to do.  Latin?  Physics?  What to choose?
Most girls took Home Economics.  So… like a Lemming, I followed suit.  I wasn’t so great with it…… at all.  Every time I would bake something…. the teacher would say… “Polly, your dough has fallen.”  Boy did that ever get a rise out of me.  As it turns out…. I only did sew-sew in Home Ec.

So I took Wood Shop.   Now I really shined there.  I could make all sorts of neat little things.  Like one of Santa’s Elves, I’ll tell you.  I saw dust everywhere, but that did not deter me.  ….. …. And at the end of the semester, we took our Wood Shop Final Exam.  I nailed it.

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”  -Thomas A. Edison