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I know, I know, I’ve been super duper negligent on blogging here at Trying to Follow. I’ve been meaning to change that. I have however been tackling some more productive projects, online and off. You’ve obviously heard about Clean Water for Elirose from some of my previous posts this year. If you haven’t,...
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Here’s my idea, and I need your feedback. It’s hard to find a little girl that doesn’t think affectionately of the disney princesses and want to be one. The main problem with that, is that princesses don’t really do anything except look pretty and fall in love.
So, my idea is to create a coloring book with...
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After just one week, we’re nearly halfway to our goal of raising $3500 for Clean Water for Elirose. And week two is kicking off with an exciting offer: $1 copies of Clean Water for Elirose! Thanks to a generous donor, we’ve got another $500 matching funds that will be given $1 for $1 for pledges made this week. And to...
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I just launched an exciting campaign to raise funds to do a large print run of Clean Water for Elirose and I NEED your help. Go here right now and pledge some cash or if you need more details keep reading.
So, about 7 months ago, I wrote and published a book called Clean Water for Elirose, a children’s picture book that helps kids...
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I have two young kids, almost 4 and 5 years old now, that I spend most of my day with. And though they are wonderful kids, parenting has it’s share of ups and downs, particularly when it comes to discipline. Last week was one of those that I stopped to reflect at the end of the week and realized that we were having some...
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Occasionally, via some easy-to-throw-out-a-politically-charged-topic channel like Facebook, a discussion will come up amongst otherwise thoughtful friends that will digress into meaningless banter arguing political talking points and no real engagement on the issues. It seems like such a missed opportunity, especially since a slower...
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Last Friday, I had the good pleasure of talking to 400 elementary school students about the topic of water and the fact that 1.1 billion people in the world lack access to clean drinking water. I came as a ‘guest author’ and read from my book Clean Water for Elirose as well as used several hands-on activities to try and...
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