Laura W. Jodice

Everyday in summer she swam laps, in the deep end, in the morning, while the pool was quite and still, around 730 or 8 am. When it...

It’s ok to do nothing. Every day  or any day or any time of day can have a nothing part. That’s ok. Watching tv, staring at a flower,...

I am in Kindergarten class, with Mrs Kroll. My favorite activities are puzzles (the wooden kinds with like 15 pieces; if i practice a...

I just arrived home from school. I’m in the 4th grade. My daily walk home is about a mile and is mostly on sidewalks (involving not...

In 2011 I started a Scales of Fairness blog. I decided to archive it here with a few edits. This blog is about the scales of fairness. ...

She asked, “What is your earliest memory?”  I think it was while we were laying on the beach in Maine, near where the estuarine river,...

As part of my DNRS brain retraining, my coach reminds me to "put it in a box". This is a way of storing a problem/issue and planning a...

Some, well many actually, of us are here to tackle the grit, provide support, fix the cracks, share learned wisdom and truth, express...

I think my favorite flower is yarrow. It comes in lots of different colors, but the first yarrow I met was white, and I learned, from the...

I woke up in the middle of the night and crafted an elaborate essay in my head about earthworms and two trauma persons. I’m not going to...

When I was 10, my parents enrolled my older brother and me in summer sailing camp. The first day my group of girls was taught in Dyer...

A few weeks ago I completed my mini ABCs of Fish journal. I started this project in March, 2020, as a way to have smaller watercolor...

In the past few weeks, the leaves on the maple tree in front of the neighbor’s house have been a vibrant orange and yellow, but that tree...

I am trying posting on the mobile app. Here’s a photo I took today. It’s a lizard that is normally bright green I guess this is it‘s...

A blog seems like a good idea. I have another blog I started anonymously about 8 years ago, but let's let that go for now. Here is some...

First watercolor - Dogwood branch