If you have a girl who can attend, I urge you to send them. If you know a girl who would attend if it weren’t for the financials, I urge you to nominate them. If you know someone who would like to help send a girl to one of these camps, I urge you to put them in touch with me. This problem of girls in STEM is not going to solve itself, it is waiting for us to act.
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So Heinz, welcome to Idaho. I hope you understand, should you want to visit again, that we care about people more than we do potatoes.
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“Why can’t I mark the box for Native American?” I asked my mom for the 100th time while filling out college applications. “Because you aren’t Native American,” she replied, not as patiently as she had the times before. “I am too!” I countered. “I’m 1/16th. I look much more. I should get to mark it.” “It is not the same.”
Read moreIs there a more uttered phrase from parenthood than “we share!”? Probably not in my household. From before my children were able to crawl, right up to current day where they can’t sit still, “we share” is echoed from every corner of my house reverberating until it interrupts every new argument, sometimes before it even begins. It only took a few
Read moreDear Evan and Lulu, “I have a long way to go and a lot to learn, but I feel committed to Idaho. I’m tied to it. And I would love to see it become, and help it to become, a much better place for my daughter to grow up.” That was a quote from me In 2007 when I was
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Chop Wood, Carry Water 