Go to the Library
Posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
I think a major highlight of my growing up years was the weekly (Really? Weekly?) trip to the library. We had two–Covina and the Los Angeles County Library in West Des Moines. The LA Library [...]
continue readingDiscover a World of Difference
Posted on Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Sometimes people are amazed at the places I’ve been–Oaxaca, Zambia, Greece, Istanbul, Poland, Czech Republic, Budapest. Paris, Lille and London last spring were amazing, but not as exotic as the earlier destinations. Sometimes even I [...]
continue readingDo Art!
Posted on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
I first heard about Culture Incorporated about a year ago, when they were preparing to reopen after a fire that destroyed their space within a month of first opening. I admit that I wasn’t terribly [...]
continue readingTear Down the Walls
Posted on Monday, November 9th, 2009
My brother and I agree that our trip to central Europe last May made the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall more meaningful than I remember it being even when it happened. One Prague memory I [...]
continue readingMap Your Mind
Posted on Monday, September 7th, 2009
I’ve filled about one sketchbook each year with notes since I learned to mind map in the early 1990s. Several years before that I had simply stopped taking notes. In those pre-mind map days, I [...]
continue readingLove Your Body
Posted on Monday, August 31st, 2009
There’s been a lot of controversy during the last week about a photo of a “normal woman” in the September issue of Glamour Magazine. Body image is certainly an area that trips a lot of [...]
continue readingVenture into Social Drama
Posted on Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Annie Mielke and I met last year and got excited about the potential for working with girls on drama and then training them to work with younger groups as a service project. Annie’s specialty is working with [...]
continue readingExplore the Teen Brain
Posted on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
I became fascinated with brain research more than 20 years ago when science began to really get inside the human brain and explore it. I’ve done my best to keep up over the years as [...]
continue readingTake a Quiz to Find Your Style
Posted on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
It’s always interesting to find out more about yourself. I think that’s what life is really about–finding out who we are and then becoming the best of that. So, whether it’s the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, [...]
continue readingUpset the Stagecoach
Posted on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
This is a great game I learned when I first started working in Urban 4-H with Rick Hofmaster. It is hilarious and has a sneaky way of helping people become comfortable speaking in front of [...]
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