I am a huge fan of thank you notes. Any kind of notes really but I especially love thank yous. This time of year our family has a list a mile long of things to be grateful for and people to whom we should be grateful. We are pretty good about writing thank yous. Some [...]

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I’ve been working with big groups of girls this year and mostly enjoying the process. Sometimes though it gets a little nutty when I’m trying to help so many kids at once on a specific project. Especially when they might have been otherwise distracted. I was talking to my friend Fran recently who has led [...]

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The official countdown here on our end of town is 8 more days of school, not counting today of course. If you are doing the math in weeks, that means less than 2 full weeks to go. If you are doing the math in how much time a parent actually has before the final school [...]

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I’ve been working with lots of kids lately doing workshops, camps and a fun afterschool Girls’ Collective. We craft, talk, explore and craft some more. Each week is something new and each week seemingly a new lesson too. And I don’t mean the lesson FROM me. Rather the lesson FOR me. I was working with [...]

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