Camp Is A Magic Mirror
August 15, 2025
This week, camp is a weird combination of peaceful and strange. The Coliseum is empty. Olympia is all quiet. Pickleball courts are silent. Summer 202...
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For kids, decisions are getting easier (and tougher)
August 08, 2025
The world has gotten really efficient at making decisions for us. Apps guess what we want to watch next (often correctly). GPS tells us exactly which...
Getting Our Seconds, Minutes, and Days Back
July 25, 2025
I’ve been sending daily videos to our camp families throughout the summer. Today I wanted to put another clip out there. Not from camp, but from come...
Remembering a Camp Hero
July 22, 2025
Before she was a legendary camp director, Jane Ragsdale was simply my favorite cousin. She was seven years older than I was, so I inevitably looked ...
Enter the Courage Circle
July 18, 2025
“I feel brave.” – Maren, age 8, after scaling the climbing wall One of our division leaders told me about this quote from last week. Three simple wor...
At camp, we help each other
July 10, 2025
The original plan was to write about courage this week. And I’m still planning to do that next week. But following the events over the last week I wo...