Janeen K Grohsmeyer

Janeen Kelley Grohsmeyer joined the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Southern Maryland in 1996. She has served on the Board of Trustees and on the Worship and the RE committees, taught Preschool and Elementary Religious Education classes, been the Coordinator of the Religious Education Program, created services (Winter Solstice, Women's History, Sacredness of the Body, and Spring Sunrise), told stories during the Children's Moment, and sung in the choir.

Grohsmeyer earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, then worked in computer design and a radar/microwave teaching laboratory. She is the mother of two children and was a breastfeeding counselor with La Leche League for five years. Currently, she manages the website for her local League of Women Voters, plays and composes for the lever harp, and is pursuing a career as a writer and storyteller.

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From A Lamp in Every Corner: Our Unitarian Universalist Storybook. To make the story more engaging and to help make it very clear who is speaking during dialogues, try developing different voices for the different characters in the story, especially the father....

Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Faithful Journeys

Reprinted from A Lamp in Every Corner: Our Unitarian Universalist Storybook (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2004). When Olympia Brown was little, girls weren't supposed to whistle. Girls weren't supposed to climb trees or run fast or catch frogs. But Olympia did; she did all those...

Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades 2-3 | From Moral Tales

A story from A Lamp in Every Corner: Our Unitarian Universalist Storybook (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2004). Read or tell the story....

Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Wonderful Welcome

A story from A Lamp in Every Corner: Our Unitarian Universalist Storybook (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2004). Read or tell the story. There once was a farm in a valley that was practically perfect in every way, except that it had no rooster to crow at the crack of dawn, and so...

Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Wonderful Welcome

On Steve's sixth birthday, many people gave him gifts. His mother gave him a chess set and promised to teach him how to play after dinner. His grandfather gave him a black rope that was twenty-five feet long and would be good for making forts and building bridges and all kinds of things....

Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Wonderful Welcome

Do you remember your first day of school? I remember mine. Your parents and grandparents probably remember their first days, too. Probably everyone remembers, no matter how long ago it was. Going to a new place and starting something new can be exciting... and sometimes a little scary....

Story | By Janeen K Grohsmeyer | October 26, 2011 | For Children, Grades K-1 | From Wonderful Welcome

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