The Science Fair is Coming
One December week, my kindergarten daughter’s Friday Folder included an eleven page two sided single spaced instruction handout for the upcoming school wide science fair. I recycled it. While she could read, my feeling was five year olds and...
Read moreSocial Studies Teachers, One of the Best
I was lucky to have Mr. Burrows for 6th grade social studies at Cedar Hill Elementary School, so were my sister and brothers. I don’t know his full name, perhaps Robert. This was when teachers’ first names were Mr.,...
Read moreThank the Photographers
Kudos! Early this week my friend Donna put a photograph on Facebook of her daughter’s “last first day of school” which was so nice it made me smile. I liked it so much I shamelessly set out to copy...
Read moreKids’ Toys for the Ages
The American Girl Doll Catalogue came today. A marker of the passage of time, I recycled it instead of reading it. What a mix of history, dolls, reading, collecting, and memories. Over the past two decades, I have purchased...
Read moreWin Win Negotiations
or Better Yet, Win – Win – Win The person you best in a business situation in your twenties will turn out to be the one person who can help you solve a difficult business complication in your forties....
Read moreThe Boulder Flood
My Genealogy Work Was Safe in the Cloud Three RAVES What a week or two! So we had a flood, a 100 year, 500 year or perhaps 1000 year flood. We were lucky to lose only what was in...
Read moreThank you to all the girls who coach girls
Role Models Woman Coaching Women Girls Coaching Girls Fifteen years ago, Emily coached my daughter swimming. When I see her mother Eleanor at the grocery store, I smile, now, a decade and half later. Sometimes, I still say thanks....
Read moreLocal Newspapers vs. the World Wide Web
I just went through every page in the Sports section of today’s Denver Post to see who won the Boulder Valley Summer Swim League Championship Races yesterday. Nowhere in the entire Sunday Sports section does this information appear. While I...
Read moreHeartfelt Thanks
Humane Society of Boulder Valley I have been lucky to know the Humane Society of Boulder Valley in a myriad of ways. Initially, I took my daughter there to play with the animals. We can’t have cats in the...
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