Michelle Gowan is a retired teacher who spent decades teaching elementary gifted kids during the day and baking and decorating sugar cookies at night. She has always loved to bake and could usually find enough butter and sugar to bake up some happiness when she had a challenging day. As she approached teacher retirement, she began to worry that she was never going to get to tell anyone, anything ever again. She wanted to retire from faculty meetings and carpool duty but she wasn’t ready to give up interacting with students. The Cookie School was born about five minutes after she realized that school was going to go right on without her. Just like our grandmothers attended to domestic tasks at quilting bees, Michelle is on a mission to gather friends together to bake cookies and sweet treats for your family and your special events. She is enamored with nostalgia and appreciates the vintage tools that modern technology has replaced with more efficient, higher functioning models. She believes that our legacies are built in the kitchen through the lessons we learned from our mothers and grandmothers. She listens to rolling pins tell stories and she doesn’t think it is weird. If you want to romanticize about the greatest generation, glamorize a simpler time, appreciate the nostalgia of your grandmother’s dough bowl, or reminisce about your legacy as a baker, Michelle will indulge you. Make some coffee, grab a rolling pin, and let’s create!