A Smorgasbord of Updates

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LUCKY SEVEN YEARS! EXACTLY EIGHT

In April of 2014, I started this blog, and here we are ~~seven~~ eight years later! Happy birthday GSWAC (Not a Council)! It’s been a fun ride. Frustrating at times, but overall, it’s been entertaining and educational on my end. Like finding out that it’s spelled “smorgasbord” and not “smorgasborg.” Addendum 4/16/22: Apparently I can’t do math and nobody else picked up on it either! It hit me while waking up this morning.

It’s been pretty slow around here since I published my paper, and I have a feeling it will stay that way for a while. I feel like I’m slowly transitioning to a different phase of my GS volunteer “career,” so my perspective is changing. Where this leads to – who knows! Continue reading

March 12 2022

Flashback to the 75th Anniversary!

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In light of the 110th anniversary of our organization, Ann Robertson has been taking a look back at past decades of Girl Scouting on her GS History blog. Recently, she published one for the 1980s, which brought me back to my childhood and the era of when I was a Girl Scout growing up.

This made me wonder what I was going to do to celebrate our 110th anniversary on this blog since I make it a priority to publish something on March 12 and October 31 for obvious reasons. Admittedly I hit writer’s block even as I scoured through past Leader Magazines and handbooks to figure out what the heck I was going to cover. Eventually I decided to do a look back at past anniversaries, but I wasn’t having much luck with inspiration. Maybe I am still burned out from celebrating the 100th back in 2012! I was still a relatively new leader at that point (started the Fall of 2010), and I have to admit the 100th celebration was a little overwhelming because I was still trying to navigate my way through this new world of Girl Scouting that was challenging from the vantage point of being a leader and one where the programming was very different than what I remembered. Oh, who am I kidding? I am still struggling navigating it and figuring out where to go from here. Continue reading