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Feed the Birds

Posted on Monday, December 26th, 2011

I thought dinosaurs were extinct, but guess what! I just found out birds are avian dinosaurs. COOL! I’m not that surprised; their fierceness reminds me of dinosaurs sometimes! A few weeks ago, we thought our [...]

Talk About Sex

Posted on Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Planned Parenthood once told me a woman is lucky if she has only a few unplanned pregnancies during her fertile years. I started menstruating when I was ten, and didn’t stop until I was 55. [...]

Go Out and Play!

Posted on Friday, September 16th, 2011

Watch my last “We’re Entrepreneurs, We Can Help” show recorded live on July 7, 2011. Ray Morley, Patti Petersen-Keys and I talk about our favorite things to do outdoors–how it feeds our inner kid, and [...]

Plant a Garden

Posted on Monday, June 6th, 2011

I’m gardening with the Earth Heroes from Carver Community School‘s Boys and Girls Club this season. When I first saw how little these mostly second graders are, I thought there’s no way they can farm [...]

Turn the Radio On

Posted on Friday, February 25th, 2011

Well, actually check out “We’re Entrepreneurs. We Can Help,” and Learn About Social Marketing. And learn we did!
Ben Stone gave us a lovely compliment, “Two Baby Boomers (three actually counting our producer Anne Larson) doing an Internet [...]

Practice Yoga

Posted on Saturday, December 25th, 2010

I lost a dear friend a month ago, and what I thought was a lifelong relationship fell apart the next day. To say the least, I was reeling for about a week. The first morning [...]

Clean and Green Your First Grade Class

Posted on Sunday, October 17th, 2010

I am excited to present the Clean and Green First Grade Program Guide. Thanks to Keep Iowa Beautiful, the Waste Commission of Scott County and Character Counts! in Iowa, we are ready to pilot it [...]

Clean and Green Your Kindergarten Class

Posted on Monday, October 11th, 2010

I am excited to present the Clean and Green Kindergarten Program Guide. Thanks to Keep Iowa Beautiful, the Waste Commission of Scott County and Character Counts! in Iowa, we are ready to pilot it in Davenport [...]

Go to the Library

Posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

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 opened when [...]

Keep Iowa Beautiful

Posted on Monday, July 5th, 2010

I’m working with Keep Iowa Beautiful and the Waste Commission of Scott County to provide educators with a program guide and resources for teaching…

Service learning
Litter free schools
Character
Environmental education

…all organized around the Iowa Core and the [...]