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Lucy poses with a white board for the featured image in her blog piece called "Thinking inside the box" for her blog, Lucy's Laboratory.

Thinking inside the box

Lucy Marco, co-online editor in chief
August 30, 2021

The value of human interaction has completely changed over the past year and a half. Some people rejoice as we go back into in-person school, surprised by how energized they feel surrounded by their...

Can I employ this garden gnome to recreate the magic that the childhood me found in an imaginary world of woodland fairies? It will take a week to find out  if it will be a sort of gnomecoming or that there's no way to go back gnome.

Making yourself at gnome

Lucy Marco, online co-editor in chief
December 19, 2020

When I was a little girl, I used to build homes, wedding venues, schools, campgrounds, you name it, for the fairies at my Grandma’s house. After nearly 11 years of reveling in the fairy magic, writing...

Photo by Chloe Marco.

An egg-s-periment in parenting goes terribly wrong

Lucy Marco, staff reporter
February 24, 2020

Jan. 28, 2020, at 10:03 p.m., this world met Cedric. With a pearly beige shell, big black eyes and long, luscious locks of vermilion, this egg will be my “baby” for the next week. For this week I’m...

As I say goodbye to gluten and animal products for a week, I open my arms to leafy greens... at least a little bit. Photo by Chloe Marco.

It’s not easy being gluten-free (and vegan)

Lucy Marco
December 16, 2019

It’s 5 o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon, and after a long day of school, you’re ready to chow down on some snacks. So you head over to the garden and grab a handful of kale and spinach. Not exactly...

I ended this week wearing a black Audrey Hepburn style dress with a very large petticoat, rhinestone necklace and earrings, and a big red leather belt tying it all together.

Era of rollers wasn’t so rockin’

Lucy Marco
November 17, 2019

Oxford saddle shoes? Check. Obnoxious skirts with petticoats and shirts buttoned all the way to the top? Yep. Never enough pearls and rhinestones? Yes ma’am. Ridiculously quaffed hair? Got it. If...

Without my cellphone to pass my time with, naturally, I had to try on every item in my closet.

Teenager goes phoneless for a week and survives

Lucy Marco
October 16, 2019

What’s something you can’t live without? OK yes, water, food, air, the essentials. But what about something you always carry with you? The first thing you wake up to in the morning? Or the last thing...

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