During this season of sharing, I invite you to share with us how you engage in service learning. What better time of year to learn something new while you're reaching out to others?

Are you learning about literacy by helping people to read?

Is your understanding of hunger being deepened by serving at your local food pantry?

Tell us about your service learning experiences.

We've been talking about breakfast food for the brain in the Continuing Ed. Forum. Do you start every day with breakfast? Does it help you focus more in class? Study better after work?

I'm a total breakfast girl, and I prefer sweet over savory in the morning. My breakfast brain food? Chocolate-chip pancakes.

What's yours?

If you live in a legal medical marijuana state, you just might be able to take a marijuana class and start a marijuana business. Sound groovy?

It is.

In Southfield, Michigan, Med Grow Cannabis College offers classes for people who want to enter the medical marijuana business. Tamar Lewin wrote about the curriculum for The New York Times:

"This state needs jobs, and we think medical marijuana can stimulate the state economy with hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars," said Nick Tennant, the 24-year-old founder of the college.

The six-week, $485 primer on medical marijuana is a cross between an agricultural extension class covering the growing cycle, nutrients and light requirements and a gathering of serious potheads, sharing stories of their best highs.

Ask me, $485 is a dirt-cheap investment in what could be a very lucrative future. Just make sure you're following the law.

"I've just told a couple of people I can trust," said Jeffery Butler, 27. "It's a business opportunity, but some people are still going to look at you funny. But I'm going to do it anyway."

Do you have a non-traditional student on your gift list? Need some ideas for what to get them for the holidays, however you celebrate them?

Here are my favorite 10 Affordable Gift Ideas for Adult Students.

I'd love to hear about yours. Share your great gift ideas in the forum. And while you're there, stick around and jabber a little with us.