A Reflective Blog About Enriching Youth through Education, Opportunity, Family, and Community.
When I started Evergreen Garden Club in the fall of 2004, its main purpose was to provide student enrichment through hands-on activities using an outdoor environment such as the school…
Today, the school year kicks off in our local communities here in the Coulee Region of Wisconsin. Most, not all, are entering this year on a virtual platform as opposed…
My post today was to be on self-actualization. However, before I was able to finish it, social media alerted me and the rest of the world that yesterday we lost…
What are you doing, personally, to make living during the COVID pandemic better for others? Anything? Or, are you just complaining? Be honest here. Are you actively trying to make…
Luckily, throughout the formative years of my boys’ education and development, I have been able to provide a great deal of enrichment outside of school. In fact, if you have…
Words need more substance than just inclusion in verbiage. There needs to be meaning AND intent behind them. While in grad school for my Environmental Education degree, we were asked…
This spring I was to engage over 1,500 local youth in presentations regarding our environment. Handouts were ordered. Seeds were collected. Easels were purchased. April, May, and June were to…
Today, tonight actually, I am going to repost a leadership topic on which I have written before; it is that of transparency. Strangely enough, this post was written in February…
