Current Day & Lessons From being a Volunteer Today, I am reposting a blog I wrote two years ago after something happened to me as a long-time volunteer. Luckily, the garden and monarch habitat persists, but I have moved on. In hindsight, despite the difficulty I had leaving this group of students who attended an…
In March of 2018, I started this post. I never finished it. However, today, on the way home from work, I saw a van that reminded me of this question. Why is everything being renamed? The following are examples of this trend: At school, the Guidance Office is now Student Services. Huh? What’s the difference?…
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Unfortunately, I had a 24 hour period of illness this week….vomiting, and malaise. It might have been an ocular migraine due to a visual disturbance that occured prior to being nauseated or perhaps it was food poisoning. But, no matter what the cause, it was the pits! Like most people, I hate being ill. It…
Years ago we had a quaint coffee shop in our town. It was called Blue Cup. It wasn’t here when we moved here, twenty years ago. But, with-in a few years, as our town experienced some of the most rapid growth in the State of Wisconsin, this local cafe opened and quickly became iconic. For…
Last Saturday, I participated in a Hike and Write event through my workplace. Actually, I was a co-organizer of the event but since it was not well attended, I participated in the discussion and writing activities as if I was an attendee. It is no secret that I like to write. I’ve written this blog…
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This morning I attended an event my employer sponsored and I helped organize. It was a hike and write event that was geared towards those who were interested in honing their writing craft, using nature as inspiration. Since our group was small, I participated as well. I know that nature inspires me to take photographs….
Some weeks ago I posted one of my academic papers from my graduate coursework in Environmental Education and Natural Resources. I am finding, roughly six months out of school, that I miss academic writing! I know that sounds crazy, but I love information and the synthesis of it following a period of researching a topic….
It’s that time again! Time to think about gardening! I am excited to once again be planning to plant a school garden with the entire student body of an elementary school. I like to do have a theme in the gardens I plant with school aged children. The reason is that this gives me and…