Great Additions to Camp
June 19, 2013
One of the things I love about camp is the chance to make it better every year. Each summer, we conduct this wonderful experiment creating a camp com...
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Rain Resilience
June 19, 2013
We saw a nice card today: “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.” Today, this saying had extra meaning ...
Growing Grit
June 14, 2013
Over the course of our careers as camp professionals and as parents, Susie Ma’am and I have become somewhat obsessed with learning about youth develop...
An Odd Pre-Camp Trip
June 13, 2013
The last 5 days have been a bit of a head-bender for me. Over the weekend, I attended my 20th HBS reunion in Boston. I only had 48 hours between the...
Sending Champions into the World
June 11, 2013
Yesterday, Susie Ma’am and I received an email from Kate Hutson, the woman who served as the Division Leader of our youngest girls last summer. She i...
Creating Advantage in College
March 21, 2013
When I started my career as a camp director in 1993, my mother (the “Silver Fox”) shared the following thought with me: “summer camp is like college, ...