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• 2024, October

  1. Special NCS Roundup

• 2024, September

  1. Worst. Survey. Ever.
  2. Membership Dues Redux
  3. CME History: A Writer Comes to the Rescue

• 2024, August

  1. The Middle TN Lawsuit Has Been Settled… Or Has It?
  2. Updated UNOFFICIAL Memory Book Updates for 2024-25
  3. Updated Badge, Journey, and Award Summaries for 2024-25

• 2024, July

  1. Mo Money Mo Problems
  2. It’s OFFICIAL Scarf Time Again, Y’all!

• 2024, June

  1. Last Girl Scout in the Woods
  2. Summer of 2024 Patch Programs

• 2024, May

  1. My Adventure with the Adventurers!

• 2024, April

  1. 10 Years of GSWAC (Not a Council)!

• 2024, March

  1. Toxic Leadership

• 2024, February

  1. A Grant for Camp Mary Elizabeth

• 2023, December

  1. My More Honest Thoughts About Governance in 2023
  2. A Follow Up to My Membership Cards Posts

• 2023, November

  1. Activity Plans for the Mechanical Engineering Badge Series

• 2023, October

  1. Happy Founder’s Day!
  2. Activity Plans for the Robotics Badges

• 2023, September

  1. Ours is a Circle of Friendships
  2. Where to Find National Programming 2023-24

• 2023, August

  1. Updated UNOFFICIAL Memory Books for 2023-24
  2. The Delegate Formula Proposal Revisited
  3. Updated Badge, Journey, and Award Summaries for 2023-24
  4. My Scarfitude is Slipping

• 2023, July

  1. 2023 NCS and Phenom Review
  2. Can You Keep a NCS Secret?

• 2023, June

  1. My Concerns about the 2023 NCS
  2. Personal Updates
  3. Kindness for Kelaia

• 2023, May

  1. GSG Town Halls and the NCS Workbook
  2. Discussing the Democratic Process at the 2023 NCS

• 2023, April

  1. Why It’s Critical for the Delegate Formula Proposal to Pass
  2. Volunteer Systems 2.0 Levels Up

• 2023, March

  1. The Middle Tennessee Council Lawsuit Update and Thoughts On It
  2. Should CEOs Serve on the National Board?
  3. Who Were the Other Seventeen?
  4. I Finally Made It!
  5. The Late Alert is Released!

• 2023, February

  1. Welcome to Our New Girl Scout Overlord

• 2023, January

  1. Volunteer Systems: D’oh!
  2. Volunteer Systems 2.0 Tasks Me

• 2022, December

  1. Happy Holidays! And Some Updates
  2. One of the Greats is Gone

• 2022, November

  1. Experiencing Experience Centers
  2. Changes to the Blue Book and NCS Chairs
  3. Halloween Costume Markdown

• 2022, October

  1. The First Step
  2. MacKenzie Scott’s $84.5 Million Donation
  3. For Junior Leaders
  4. Daisy Petal Plans from VTK

• 2022, September

  1. The Three Little Pigs and a Contract
  2. UNOFFICIAL Memory Books!

• 2022, August

  1. Two New OFFICIAL Scarves and a Surprise!
  2. 2022-23 National Programming Summaries
  3. Wherefore Art Thou, Journeys?

• 2022, July

  1. Online Smithsonian Collection and Archive List
  2. GSG Survey about NCS Proposals
  3. We Gather Here To Lay It To Rest

• 2022, June

  1. Lawsuits and NCS Proposals Join Forces
  2. A Spooky Governance Story
  3. Trailblazers – The Second Year

• 2022, May

  1. GSUSA’s FY2021 Financials

• 2022, April

  1. I Wrote a Sternly Worded Letter
  2. The Emphasis on Network Alignment

• 2022, March

  1. A Smorgasbord of Updates
  2. Flashback to the 75th Anniversary!

• 2022, February

  1. GSUSA’s FY2020 Financials on GSG

• 2022, January

  1. Tough Cookies Revisited
  2. It’s Gonna Be Meme
  3. Volunteer Survey About Pre-2012 Changes

• 2021, December

  1. Calling All Fellow Pack Rats!
  2. Circling Back Around to CircleAround

• 2021, November

  1. VTK & Me: A Year’s Difference
  2. Camps Aren’t Optional
  3. Press Your Luck: IT Expenses and a Whammy
  4. Almost OFFICIAL Scarf

• 2021, October

  1. Our Founder Sends You a Birthday Message
  2. Network Alignment: The Next Frontier

• 2021, September

  1. I Wrote a Strongly Worded Letter
  2. A Super Partnership

• 2021, August

  1. Kinda Sorta Maybe OFFICIAL Scarves!
  2. I Want to Believe
  3. A Family Affair

• 2021, July

  1. The Very, Very, Very, Very Early Alert for the 2023 National Council Session
  2. Trailblazers Rebooted, Part Two
  3. Farthest North vs. GSUSA: It’s Over. Really Really Really.
  4. Trailblazers Rebooted

• 2021, June

  1. Middle Tennessee Gets an Offer It Can’t Refuse

• 2021, May

  1. We’re Spending HOW Much on IT?
  2. If You Want Something Done Right… Membership Cards Edition
  3. If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Yank Their Charter

• 2021, April

  1. The Four Pillars Revisited

• 2021, March

  1. A Skills-Based Program Reset Button
  2. Happy 109th Birthday, Girl Scouts!

• 2021, February

  1. Ghost Face
  2. The Fellowship of the Ring as Girl Scout Cookies
  3. Here and There and Everywhere
  4. Friends of Camp WaBak Launches!

• 2021, January

  1. Sorry Bernie, I Couldn’t Resist
  2. 2021 Cookie Memes
  3. Stop Being Hypocritical, GSUSA

• 2020, December

  1. GSUSA Executive Turnover
  2. Moving from Membership Dues to Membership Cards
  3. None of These are Like the Other

• 2020, November

  1. A Fall Product Sales Surprise!
  2. Now is the Time to Take Action on Camps
  3. Before There Were Virtual Troops…
  4. Letting It Run Its Course

• 2020, October

  1. A Message From the Founder of Girl Scouts
  2. A Very Scary Halloween Decoration
  3. 2020 NCS Wrap-Up Brought to You by Generation X
  4. GSUSA ‘Tis a Remorseless Eating Machine
  5. I Lied – One More 2020 NCS Post: Nomination Off the Floor
  6. Buckle Up – It’s Gonna Be a Bumpy Ride
  7. 2020 NCS: Proposal 4 Cannot Come First
  8. The National Council Session in the 1950s
  9. Last GSG Town Hall Before the National Council Session
  10. Trust Me
  11. We Interrupt This Blog For a Brief Announcement

• 2020, September

  1. Before There Were OFFICIAL Scarves….
  2. Open Town Halls Hosted by GirlScoutGovernance.com
  3. 2020 NCS: No Questions Allowed?
  4. A GSWAC (Not a Council) Presentation on National Governance in Girl Scouting
  5. 2020 NCS: A GSWAC (Not a Council) Parliamentary Procedure Presentation
  6. 2020 NCS: Not Passing Proposal 2 is Our Fail-Safe
  7. 2020 NCS: Passing Proposals 2 through 4 Opens Pandora’s Box

• 2020, August

  1. Why I Don’t Support #IWill
  2. Want to Find Out What’s Going On With Our Movement?
  3. 7 Reasons Why the National Council Should Have Sole Authority Over Membership Dues: Cliff Notes Version
  4. A Big Welcome – But Wait, There’s More….
  5. I’ve Had IT and I’m Calling People OUT
  6. The Yellowstone Trip: Three Years in the Making (Part Three)

• 2020, July

  1. Presenting… a GSWAC (Not a Council) Webinar!
  2. Alexa?
  3. The Signpost Up Ahead
  4. The NCS Workbook and Pies

• 2020, June

  1. GSUSA Launches CircleMeow™ – Powered By Girl Scouts!
  2. Nerd Alert!  A Virtual Parliamentary Procedure Reality?
  3. NEW! Adult Achievement Patches

• 2020, May

  1. A Rabbit Hole, a NCS Workbook, and a Membership Dues Timeline Rebuttal
  2. The 2020 NCS: Proposals 2 through 4 – I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)
  3. Governance, Grassroots, and GSG
  4. Ten Years Gone

• 2020, April

  1. G.I.R.L. 2020 is a N.O.G.O.
  2. The Yellowstone Trip: Three Years in the Making (Part Two)
  3. Electronic Musings

• 2020, March

  1. An OFFICIAL SCARF SHOWCASE! For Real!
  2. At the Beginning

• 2020, February

  1. The New “It’s How Much?” OFFICIAL Scarf – Or Is It?
  2. The Early Alert for the 2020 National Council Session

• 2020, January

  1. The Yellowstone Trip: Three Years in the Making (Part One)
  2. The WINNER of the OFFICIAL Scarf Poll!
  3. Farthest North vs. GSUSA: It’s Over. For Real This Time.

• 2019, December

  1. The OFFICIAL Scarf Showcase!
  2. Annual Meeting OFFICIAL Scarf Poll

• 2019, November

  1. The Democratic Process Solution White Paper
  2. Woman Yelling at Cat Cookie Memes

• 2019, October

  1. Founder’s Day Scout’s Own
  2. Girl Scout Troop Leader Experience Podcast Interview
  3. Reevaluating Dated Council Property Plans
  4. Farthest North vs. GSUSA: The Animated GIF Edition

• 2019, September

  1. Farthest North vs. GSUSA: The Final Battle
  2. The New YouTube SU 639 UNOFFICIAL Enrichment Channel

• 2019, August

  1. A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
  2. Cybersecurity & CEI

• 2019, July

  1. One Crazy Summer

• 2019, June

  1. Built-in Civics Education
  2. Blue Ghosts and Christmas Lights

• 2019, May

  1. Backpacking Here and Now
  2. A Look Into the Craziness

• 2019, April

  1. Cadette Think Like an Engineer Journey Reformat
  2. Farthest North vs. GSUSA: The Sequel
  3. Five Years of GSWAC (Not a Council)!

• 2019, March

  1. Happy 107th Birthday Girl Scouts!

• 2019, February

  1. Death Spiral: Governance Edition
  2. Junior Think Like an Engineer Rewrite
  3. Mystery Solved

• 2019, January

  1. The Membership Dues Authority Proposal: There Can Be Only One
  2. The 2019 Cookie Memes Show
  3. Holy National Governance, Batman!

• 2018, December

  1. Orienteering Ho!
  2. Merry Christmas from 1942!
  3. Encampment Rain, Rain, Go Away

• 2018, November

  1. Hear Ye, Hear Ye! 2020 Proposal Info is Here!

• 2018, October

  1. To You, Girl Scouts
  2. This and That
  3. KARAT Kards Reimagined!

• 2018, September

  1. Junior Think Like a Programmer Rewrite

• 2018, August

  1. A Moment of Silence, Please
  2. WaBak Patches, Plaques, Porches, and Parks
  3. Whoops! Ignore My Accidental WaBak Post
  4. My Printer Weeps… For Joy!
  5. Junior Think Like a Citizen Scientist My Way

• 2018, July

  1. Peruvian Brownie Quest LiA Journey Weekend
  2. A 1950 Camp WaBak Kind of Day

• 2018, June

  1. Death Spiral
  2. Camp WaBak’s Opening

• 2018, May

  1. The Yates Lodge at Camp WaBak
  2. A Timely Facebook Memory
  3. The Customer is Always Right?
  4. Cats and Badges
  5. GSUSA Claims To See Russia From Alaska

• 2018, April

  1. Delegate Tips: Q&A
  2. National Center West Map, Patch, and Cartoon
  3. How Much Is That Camp in the Window?
  4. Survey #2 Results: What Type of Troop/IGP?

• 2018, March

  1. Survey #2: Types of Troops/IGP
  2. Court is Now in Session
  3. Cookie Season is Over
  4. It’s Girl Scout Week!
  5. Survey Results: What’s the #1 Stressor for Troop Leaders/Volunteers?
  6. Survey: What’s the #1 Stressor for Troop Leaders/Volunteers?
  7. Well Behaved Women

• 2018, February

  1. More Cookie Memes
  2. Cookie Incentives from the 80s
  3. Show Me the Money

• 2018, January

  1. Bylaw Amendment Proposal Example
  2. City Slickers 2017: Look to the Sky!

• 2017, December

  1. Ho Ho Ho Printer Claus
  2. Twelve Page Pet Peeve
  3. VTK and You: The Summary (not a video)
  4. VTK and You: Ain’t Nothin’ But a Good Time
  5. VTK and You: The Final Countdown (not really)
  6. VTK and You: Here I Go Again
  7. VTK and You: We’ve Only Just Begun
  8. VTK and You: The Saga Begins (A Video Series)

• 2017, November

  1. R.I.P. Daisy Brown
  2. Oct 2016 – Sept 2017 Hours Tally

• 2017, October

  1. Proof of J-Low and a Letter from Rudyard Kipling
  2. Rename the Savannah Bridge!
  3. 2017 National Convention: What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been
  4. 2017 National Council Session Wrap Up: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

• 2017, September

  1. The Calm Before the Storm
  2. Lifetime vs. Annual Membership Dues Rebuttal
  3. Eclipses, Patches, and Swaps (Oh My)

• 2017, August

  1. Who Does Proposal 2 Work For? Not You
  2. Convention Update, Visiting Jenny, and Brick Walls
  3. List of Nat’l Council Session Proposals and Actions Since 2008

• 2017, July

  1. The Board of Directors and Fiduciary Duties
  2. National Delegates Don’t Do This! Comic
  3. But What If There’s an Emergency?
  4. The Lifetime Membership Dues Amendment Contradiction
  5. National Center West Newspaper Photo
  6. Thirty Years Ago at National Center West!

• 2017, June

  1. Back to the Future: About 2008 and Membership Dues
  2. Camp WaBak Patch Collection
  3. G.I.R.L. 2017 is a No Go
  4. October to May 2017 Hours Tally

• 2017, May

  1. I’m Sorry We Leaders “Failed” Your Daughter
  2. Camping, the Outdoors, and Defending Leaders Again
  3. Make Your Own Troop Crest

• 2017, April

  1. Burgers R Us
  2. Surveys, Rogues, and Signs
  3. WaBak Falls

• 2017, March

  1. Badges? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Badges!

• 2017, February

  1. Camp WaBak’s Beginnings
  2. Happy Valentine’s Day
  3. The Mountain Bridge Passage Trail

• 2017, January

  1. A Message From Juliette Low
  2. Hooray for Hollywood and 2017’s Cookie Memes
  3. Choosing a Troop Crest

• 2016, December

  1. New Year’s Eve Random Patch Bowl Edition Plus More
  2. Robert’s Rules
  3. Building Leaders through Woodburning

• 2016, November

  1. Happy Belated OFFICIAL Thanksgiving Day Parade!
  2. Why We Do It
  3. Guess the Retired Badge Game

• 2016, October

  1. Happy Halloween and Happy Birthday J-Low!
  2. Volunteer Essentials Pet Peeve
  3. Inclusion and the Importance of It
  4. And the FINAL Final Tally Is…

• 2016, September

  1. Rainbow Falls
  2. National CEO Survey
  3. One Does Not Simply Meme
  4. Restructuring and Membership Numbers
  5. The OFFICIAL! OFFICIAL Scarf Story

• 2016, August

  1. Governance vs. Operations vs. Kittens
  2. Cadette Handbooks
  3. Delegate Duties or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Board
  4. Camp Mary Elizabeth’s Cabin
  5. City Slickers 2016

• 2016, July

  1. If I Were CEO of GSUSA!
  2. OFFICIAL Fail
  3. Mind Numbing Boredom
  4. Generation Gaps & Leadership Outcomes
  5. MY Big News! And It’s Not a Float!
  6. Stay Tuned for MY BIG NEWS!
  7. BIG NEWS is Coming on Wednesday!

• 2016, June

  1. Additions to WaBak Posts
  2. Paris Mountain Hike
  3. Tradition!
  4. June 11th is Girl Scout Gold Award Day in Athens, GA
  5. Girl Scout Leaders and Snoring
  6. R.I.P. Athena
  7. And the Final Tally Is…

• 2016, May

  1. Pet Peeve About Badges That’s Been Beaten to Death
  2. It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
  3. Black Holes and Random Patches

• 2016, April

  1. Big Boy Mountain in the Spring
  2. Happy Leader’s Day!
  3. Surveys and Random Stuff
  4. The 2016 Service Unit 639 Encampment is in the Books!
  5. Troop 20 at the J-Low Birthplace

• 2016, March

  1. Camp Mary Elizabeth’s Wildflowers
  2. Camp Mary Elizabeth’s History
  3. And Cookie Season Is Over (REJOICE)
  4. We Finished the Journey Today
  5. In Defense of Girl Scouts and Leaders and Rules
  6. We Interrupt This Program For A Brief Announcement
  7. Thinking Day State Swaps

• 2016, February

  1. How to Win Friends and Influence People
  2. Random Patch of the Week or Something
  3. Jenny Stories!
  4. Full of Sound and Fury
  5. Athens’ First Girl Scout Troop
  6. Cookie Haikus
  7. Cookie Reboot

• 2016, January

  1. “Ball Made of Recycled Christmas Cards” Craft
  2. Random Patch of the Day, Part Two
  3. This Is What I Do When I’m Supposed To Be Cleaning
  4. Girl Scout Cookies Thrash Metal
  5. Cookie Sheet
  6. Multi-Level Troop Stress
  7. They’re here! 2016 Cookie Memes
  8. The Juliette Gordon Low Papers Collection

• 2015, December

  1. 2016 Cookie Memes Preview
  2. What a Great Christmas Present
  3. Falls Creek Falls
  4. Random Patch of the Day
  5. It’s My Least Favorite Time of the Year

• 2015, November

  1. Brownies Unleashed at Summer Camp
  2. It’s the Little Things – Girls Guides Pet Peeve
  3. It’s Complicated and Leader Connections
  4. Return to Whitehall Forest

• 2015, October

  1. I Led a Group of Girls Up Big Boy and Nobody Died
  2. Junior Journey Weekend
  3. Camp WaBak Weather
  4. You So Cray-Cray!!
  5. White Paper Hub Bub
  6. Big Boy Mountain in the Fall
  7. Printout Pet Peeve
  8. I Found the Trip Out West Diary!
  9. Llama Trek 2015!

• 2015, September

  1. Eeyores, Scrapbooks, and What Nots
  2. The Scorpion Patrol at Our Cabaña
  3. Troop 20 Visits Dean Rusk
  4. Barbie is Back! (and you’re gonna be in trouble)
  5. R.I.P. Big Boy
  6. How to Use Google Forms for Sign Ups

• 2015, August

  1. Leader Survival Kit
  2. GET OUT! Summer Signature
  3. Moonshine Falls at Asbury Hills
  4. The Path to the Gold Award in the 80s
  5. Did You Know?
  6. A RECENT Newspaper Clipping!
  7. Another Favorite Newspaper Clipping
  8. Happy National S’mores Day!
  9. World’s Fair Pictures
  10. Poison Ivy Info
  11. Alien Biscuits – The Story, The Myth, The Legend
  12. Tito’s PIZZA!!!!!!, Inside Jokes, and Rock Shops

• 2015, July

  1. Cadette Video from City Slickers
  2. The Best Part about City Slickers Camp
  3. The Shortcut Debacle
  4. 2015 City Slickers Camp
  5. My Favorite Troop 20 Newspaper Clipping
  6. “Why I’ll Be Forever Grateful to the Girl Scouts”
  7. Wildflowers Aplenty at Station Cove Falls
  8. Nature Journals
  9. Love for Our Cabaña
  10. Old School Sleeping Bag
  11. Camping Kaper Charts
  12. HOLY SCHNIKES Camp WaBak!!!
  13. Camp WaBak’s History
  14. Create Your Own Planisphere

• 2015, June

  1. 1982 World’s Fair, Part Two
  2. Camp WaBak Song
  3. Tic Tac Toe and Doodles
  4. Camp WaBak’s Cabins
  5. Summer Camp Memories at Whitehall Forest
  6. Enter the Uniform Zone… IF YOU DARE!
  7. Now is the Summer of Our Discontent

• 2015, May

  1. Uniforms from the Past Made Me Cry
  2. A Pet Peeve of Mine
  3. The Original J-Low
  4. COOLEST ROCK EVER
  5. Farthest North GS Council Website Header Graphic

• 2015, April

  1. The Old Girl Scout Leader
  2. 1982 World’s Fair, Part One

• 2015, March

  1. 2015 Thinking Day – Bengal Tiger Tail Swap
  2. GS Troops Across the Country
  3. Cookie Memories from NE Georgia

• 2015, February

  1. It Doesn’t Take Much to Amuse Me
  2. Happy World Thinking Day!

• 2015, January

  1. Troop 20 Top Cookie Sellers!
  2. J-Low Money!
  3. Why I Don’t Think We Should #banbossy
  4. Side business?
  5. Other GS Cookie Memes That I Didn’t Make
  6. 2015 GS Cookie Memes
  7. Last year’s GS Cookie Memes

• 2014, November

  1. It only took 25 years

• 2014, October

  1. Kids These Days

• 2014, September

  1. Grabbed this off of Facebook
  2. From retro to historical

• 2014, July

  1. Communication Station!
  2. Maybe It’s Me…
  3. This makes it all worthwhile
  4. Starter Kits

• 2014, June

  1. Wind Map
  2. Chattanooga Trip Itinerary
  3. I’d Need a Time Machine

• 2014, May

  1. Our Harlem Shake
  2. How NOT to Go Hiking
  3. First Camping Trip – Day Two
  4. Pardon Me Boy… Is That the Chattanooga Choo Choo?

• 2014, April

  1. First Delegate Meeting
  2. Just Some Light Reading
  3. Former GS CEO pleads guilty to embezzlement
  4. Tacos in a Bag
  5. First Camping Trip – Day One