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...
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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...
Cartwheels, Robots and Scheduling
July 21, 2011
Tonight I saw lots of great images. As the campers were walking to the Coliseum for Torchlight, I saw campers doing cartwheels. I see this a lot, b...
A Visitor at Camp
July 20, 2011
Today, we had a visitor, author and youth development expert Michael Thompson. He is wrote the New York Times best-selling book “Raising Cain” with D...
Green Acres and Home
July 18, 2011
My Wife Said WHAT?!?! “Steve Sir is not worth anything!” - Susie Ma’am Generally, these are not words you like to hear from your loving wife. But t...