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      • The Woonboot
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Blog

25 Jun 2014

Choosing One’s Profile Picture

  This is not as easy as it sounds.   I’ve know for a few months that one of my goals for 2014 was “updating my Profile Picture.” My current one will be ten years old in late August. So, channelling my … Read More

Blog, Janet Givens, Melody Starkweather, Profile picture, social media
15 Mar 2013

Mistakes

  Welcome to today’s blog: mistakes. We’ve all made them, suffered through them, regretted them, and obsessed over them. And, I trust, learned from them, even laughed at them.     I made another one last week when this post launched … Read More

"to err is human", auto accidents, Blog, making mistakes, Mistakes, recipe mistakes, typographical errors

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Books

LEAPFROG: How to hold a civil conversation in an uncivil era

“Janet’s LEAPFROG describes— in an accessible and fun way— the nuts and bolts of how to have a civil conversation…”

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At Home on the Kazakh Steppe:A Peace Corps Memoir

Praise from Kirkus Review

“…she writes engagingly … a sharp-eyed journalist. A worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in humanitarian work.”

At Home on the Kazakh Steppe, A Peace Corps Memoir, by Janet Givens
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