Since I live inside Girl Scouts of Central Texas’ council, these notes and links are specific to GSCTX. But if you find this page while wandering on the interwebs, chances are good these notes will be useful where you are, too.
If you or your troop families are just now learning about Savannah’s place in Girl Scout hearts, you’ll want to begin with the adult GSUSA summary “Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace,” take a look at the girl-focused GSUSA page, and then move on to the official homepage for the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace.
Packing List for Oak Hill Girl Scouts Weekend Campout: Fall/Winter
Packing List for Oak Hill Girl Scouts Weekend Campout Clothing: ___ socks (one pair per day, one extra pair) ___ underwear (one pair per day, one extra pair) ___ sleepwear ___ sturdy, closed toe shoes ___ flip-flops (for cabin/shower) ___ shorts & short-sleeve shirts (one set per day) ___ pants (one pair)* ___ sweatshirt and/or […]
Girl Scouts of Central Texas: Oak Hill Service Unit Troop 2041 Parent Permission Slip RETURN THIS TO TROOP LEADER at [date, time]
Today I found a happy pocket of flow during, of all things, post-building for another site I’m neglec^H^H^H^H^H^H managing. I learned something quite nifty for them, which I’m going to turn around and deploy here. Because it’s 9:22pm. And earlier today I’d considered a new 9pm go-to-bedtime policy. But I’m willing to: What is it […]
I read a book, Beautiful and Pointless, back in…let’s see…March of 2014, per the annotation in my notebook. Its subtitle is “A Guide to Modern Poetry,” though from what I remember the book did not take the tour-guide approach the title might imply. When I picked it up, I thought it might be a different […]
I hammered away at SFD #3 today…3b, at this point, because I wanted to save a copy of the frame I made yesterday prior to filling it in today. So I put many words onto digital paper. (And paper-paper, once I knocked off for the day.) I’m past 1700 of the words, in fact, which […]
Leadership, particularly women’s ways of leadership (h/t Sally Helgesen!), is one of my hobbies. I add that “women’s ways” rider because, while I steadily see women exercising their leadership skills in wonderful and subtle ways, I frequently have those same leaders push back at me that they are NOT leaders. Including the person who taught […]
So in current Girl Scouting, girls can earn meta-badges called (Leadership) Journeys. They take a topic from first introduction (Discover) out to community partners (Connect) and then into addressing a community gap through project-based service (Take Action). If a girl earns all three of the Journeys offered at her age level, she is entitled to […]
