Back in high school, I received a sample flashcard in the mail with the word “AMELIORATE” on it.  It was accompanied by a sales brochure announcing that I could learn ALL of my SAT words in seconds, with this incredible deck of supremely ugly flashcards.  I tossed the card and the brochure, but I’ve never forgotten that word or the definition.  And I sucked it on my SATs.

Lately I’ve been thinking about flashcards again.  I need to learn lots of things, like financial terms, how to perform CPR, what is it about baseball that is so captivating . . . so I’m going to try doing a few.

Please bear with me, since the cards might seem very random or scatterbrained for the first few months.  I might start out with just vocabulary for a while.