Confidence (and some flattery)
August 01, 2011
Heart-Stealing Role Call At the start of each Torchlight, we have “Role Calls” during which each cabin tells a joke or sings a song. When we have c...
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Memory Lane
July 29, 2011
I have such mixed feelings about this night. I hate the realization that many of our campers would be leaving. I love the fact that we celebrate our ...
The Two Best Things I Ever Did For My Children . . .
July 28, 2011
“Summer Camp and Orthodontia” Long before anyone took summer camps seriously as a growth opportunity for children, my grandmother told one of her fr...
Making It Rain (and Finding Life's Sprinklers)
July 27, 2011
I am really bummed. Susie Ma’am and I missed the rain. On our afternoon off, we were running errands in town when the cloudburst hit. Texas is in a...
Siren Song of the Silicon
July 24, 2011
I love watching campers live in the physical world and disconnect from the virtual one. Yet I have friends that see camp as an anachronism. They thi...
Doing the Dumpster Dance
July 22, 2011
Remembering the Dumpster Dance During a Man Cave talk recently, a camper asked me about my first summers as a camp director. What was it like? Wha...