Creative /kre’adiv/ I am creative (the noun), a person who is creative in my professional context. I am creative (the adjective), a word that describes my imagination and the originality of my ideas. I produce imaginative, original and artistic work, thereby, I am creative. Perfection /pərˈfekSH(ə)n/ I am also a self-inflicted perfectionist. I refuse to […]
A Third culture kid (TCK) is a term used to refer to children raised in a culture other than their parents’ (or the culture of the country given on the child’s passport, where they are legally considered native) for a significant part of their early development years. After two days of learning about the American School of Bombay, today, […]
My day began just as it did yesterday. Greeted with a cheerful good morning by the lovely Pradnya (pictured), then boarding the school bus that delivered all of the presenters safely to the ASB Elementary Campus for the last day of @ASBPluggedIn. The word safety is significant here, because the streets of the Bandura Kurla Complex (BKC) are energetic and […]
Dream, Learn, Serve. That is the Mission of the American School of Bombay (ASB) and why Frame the Message Ink is here coloring outside of the lines for the next 5 days. It’s why I traveled over 8,068 miles from Phoenix, Arizona, endured 24 exhausting hours in airports and airplanes…. To Mumbai, India. To support the learning of 740+ students and 250+ […]
Picture This! In 2017, Frame the Message Ink will be coloring outside the lines and spanning the globe. To countries far and wide, there are sure to be many amazing adventures! Can you picture it? In February 2017, we’ll begin our year of excursions by traveling to Mumbai, India to work with students, teachers and community members at The American […]
I was that kid. Fingers smudged by leaky pens, nose marked by the glorious smelling of Mr. Sketch markers, and art supplies littering virtually every work space I occupied. As a student, I was coined the “Sharpie Queen” and succeeded in school primarily because of my audio-visual prowess, not my academic skill. I have no […]
