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The “Girl Scouts of America” organization was founded in 1912 by Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Lowe at her home in Savannah, GA.  Girls Scouts of Michigan Junior Troop 97 was founded sometime around 1990? (give or take) in rural mid-Michigan.   In April of 1993, Junior Troop 97 decided to pack up eleven members (ages 9-12) and a half dozen moms and drive from the Great Lakes State down to visit the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace in Savannah. Via a short stay in Charleston, SC. I tell you this because this week - actually as this newsletter is sending - my husband and I are taking a short trip to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary - in Charleston, SC.  And I thought it would be fun to compare the trips.   Fourth grade me, 30 years ago, was a typical 10-year old - I think.  I wore ridiculous clothes and gave only about half of my attention to anything that was being said, believed everything I was told, and took way too many pictures of useless things, gi...

Summer is different for different people, to be sure.   The kids - like mine - who just got released from the brick and mortar (or virtual) prisons facilities that are their schools to enjoy 90 days (give or take) of relaxation filled with way too much sugar and far too little structure are undoubtedly going to have a different outlook on June-August than the businessman who will still be going to work in an aggressively air-conditioned cubical every day for the season.  The construction workers who are laboring in the elements all day will probably feel differently than the life guards at the local pools as the heat ramps up.  Teachers and crop farmers probably also have different takes on life about this time of the year. But I bet most of us can find at least a few things about summer that we all look forward to.  Even those of us who often prefer cooler - or at least less humid - weather, like myself.  In spite of its brutal heat and stickiness, I stil...