Sitting outside the kitchen, sipping my coffee and enjoying the apple cinnamon muffin, I noticed how incredibly quiet the camp was! Approximately one hundred people on the camp grounds and, aside from the music coming from the kitchen and a lonely loon, it was silent and still. Incredible. But the camp days were long and exhausting so…

I awoke on Friday morning feeling renewed. Despite the nightmare, I was able to get back to sleep and slept solidly. Also I was happy to note that there had been no interruptions from sick campers through the night. Whew!The place was amazingly silent, but then again it was still early. It would be another…

I got the kids to bed and went down to the health office. I had a couple of campers who came for their scheduled medications. Ron, a first year counselor, had accompanied them. He was sitting draped on the chair in the hallway just chillin’. I opened up the health office and pulled their meds out of…

“Now, pray tell, do enlighten me. What is this ‘all-camp’ that you speak of?” I asked Caroline as we sat by the fire, our faces aglow from the fire light.“An ‘all-camp’ is just that. It is an activity that involves all the kids at camp. We will spend Friday afternoon participating in the all-camp. The…