Seeing CC as an Outsider
August 28, 2022
Note from Steve Sir - At the end of the summer, we hosted a dynamic, young man who just got a dual graduate degree in education and business, Mario De...
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A Final Farewell
August 13, 2022
Each summer is a long an unique journey. As we like to say at camp, “the days are long, but the weeks are short.” Time travels differently at camp. W...
Avoid Interviewing for Pain
August 12, 2022
During orientation, we coach our counselors on ways to talk with campers. One of our first rules is to make sure the campers know you care and that ...
A Surprising Revelation
August 12, 2022
I would like to share a story about our first experience sending our own children to camp 18 years ago. Like many of you, Steve Sir and I would pore ...
Fostering Strength (Building "Stress Wood")
August 11, 2022
In 1991, an Arizona facility called Biosphere 2 began a series of experiments. [Note from Susie Ma’am: Steve Sir can go off on the occasional tangent....
Homesickness and Growth
August 11, 2022
[This is the second in two articles about homesickness at camp.] I have spent a lot of time thinking about homesickness. I have come to think of it a...