Julie Samrick

Happy new year!

Crib Notes: The fragility of freedom Charlie Kirk was murdered on Sept. 10, one day before a date seared into our national memory. On that morning 24 years ago, hijackers attacked us on American soil for

Welcome back to a new school year! Do you know if your area schools have gone phone-free?

Crib Notes: Back to school, back to childhood As throngs of families scour school supply lists and clip the tags off new outfits, the annual back-to-school ritual begins. But this fall, more schools are taking steps to throw

Hope to see you there!

Cultivate your creative nature at this writing workshop led by Julie Samrick. Bring a notebook for some hands-on writing and all of the questions about writing you’ve always wanted to ask.

Register at edhlib.org/creativewriters2025. This program is for adults 18+.

When I tell people I teach eighth grade I get a lot of, "Wow, that’s a tough age." But it couldn’t be a more energizing age. There’s a lot of noise about teenagers in the news too — that they’re wild, that they don’t want to work hard, that nothing will get them unburied from their phones — but I’ve seen just the opposite in El Dorado Hills recently.

Crib Notes: A breath of fresh air When times are heated, when it’s hard to watch another minute of the national news because it feels like the whole world has gone crazy and your blood pressure is