In 2014, I convinced my husband that we should take educational family vacations. He agreed, but added that they had to be road trips so we could take our time….
The 5 Coolest Global Mobile Libraries
Books on a burro! Image from Wikimedia Commons via Acción Visual/Diana Arias. No better method has ever been devised for reaching the dweller in the country. The book goes to…
3 Ways to Learn a New Language…Fast!
Image from Pixabay user jairojehuel. When I studied Spanish in high school (after a brief and fruitless foray into French in junior high), I was in my element. I gleefully…
Cultural History: 5 Ways to Learn About the Past to Appreciate the Present!
Ephesus’ Celsus Library. Image from Wikimedia Commons user Benh LIEU SONG. When you travel, it’s easy to get caught up in the moment – sights, sounds, smells, and a thousand…
Through Poverty and Hardship: Why Every Woman Is a Changemaker
Image courtesy of Liliane Calfee, Soleil Media. We’re pleased to debut the fresh voices of the second cohort of the Go Girl Blogging Program! Stay tuned for new articles from new…
4 Ways to Celebrate Girls on International Day of the Girl Child 2014
Celebrate girls! Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. For all that we talk about the rights and needs of women, we often forget that women come from somewhere. Women, as Simone…
Girl Rising – Beauty, Hope, and Perseverance
If you have the chance to see Girl Rising, you must! A beautifully shot film about the value of educating girls, it doesn’t have a wide distribution. In fact, most…
When games become reality
Remember when you were eight years old? You had such few worries in your world and and even those were more often than not forgotten when something easily distracted you….
Go Girl’s new monthly discussion: Teaching Creationism in School
New in Go Girl: We are beginning monthly discussion topics, relating to current events, to keep our readers (and writers!) in the loop with news-worthy topics. We will begin by…
Finding Home: Paia, Part 2
Continued from Part 1 here. On my fourth morning in Maui, I woke up to a flurry of emails and phone calls. I’d applied for a fellowship with a growing…
I Dreamed of Africa
I Dreamed of Africa is the title of the book, by Kuki Gallman, that has accompanied me on my first few days in Arusha, Tanzania. A beautiful, auto-biographical love story…
A Moroccan Education
This week has been filled with education and educational experiences. For starters, I began teaching English in a conversational style at one organization in Sale, the sister city of Rabat. …
A Moroccan Education
For the past two weeks, I have been living (almost) truly on my own in Rabat in a house with 11 of my fellow study abroad classmates. Well, at least…