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Sara Marchessault

What’s your holiday game plan?

It’s game time! Not Monday night. Not College Game Day. It’s holiday game time. (Almost.) Has holiday planning started kicking into gear for you? This week my inbox received emails with ideas for gifts for family members, holiday field trip info for my kindergartener, and the name of…

Dress up your journaling

“Mommy, what are you going to be for Halloween?” “A teacher.” Cue the music that chimes in when sarcasm is at one of my high points. In my head its Beethoven’s Fifth – no idea why. Ayla giggled and said “you’re a teacher everyday mom.” And that was…

What happens when you journal?

Keeping a journal is a project that starts out differently for all of us. It can be about record keeping. Or finding answers. Or just because you have to write. Regardless of the reason we journal, there are a few very cool side effects that happen to every journal writer…