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Queen of the Butterflies
One of the things I love about my job is being able to bring some of mine and others crazy ideas to life. A couple of years ago the greenhouse on campus was transferred back to the care of the Science Department. After being used as a sustainable garden for the Culinary Department, it became overgrown and out of control. As we don’t currently offer any botany courses we needed to find a new use for the space. A couple of failed attempts led to one of my faculty suggesting a butterfly habitat. Of course I loved the idea and rallied my staff to get working. My staff put in…
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Lapel Pins
There are many things I have collected over the years that I let go of over the years, unicorns and cows are two that took up so much space in my life. One thing that remained are pins, specifically lapel pins. I don’t even know when I started collecting them but it may have started in the 80’s when my denim jacket was covered with button and lapel pins. Sometime in the 90’s I started picking up the state shape pins that were sold in rest stops when I traveled. After losing the majority of my pin collection in the house fire, I reevaluated did I want to restart this…