Well, Ranch Camp’s almost over. This is the next-to-the-last week, which, as I recall from my days running camp, is the tiredest, hardest week of all for the camp staff. Next week their hearts will be bittersweet sad/happy, remembering the campers they’ve served over the summer, not knowing if they’ll see them ever again, hoping they will…
Vanity, vanity, all is vanity
“For what profit comes to man from all the toil and anxiety of heart with which he has labored under the sun? All his days sorrow and grief are his occupation; even at night his mind is not at rest.” (from Ecclesiastes)“This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build…
More Planes, Trains, etc. Installment Two
Coronado Springs Resort Hotel Saturday dawned with all of us confronting basic life support while marooned on the Aruba Resort at Disney World. We needed to all be awake, showered, dressed, at the conference center at Coronado Springs Resort and fed by 8:15 AM, a challenge for any group of 17 people. We presented ourselves…
The Road to the Ranch Part II
When I last wrote about how the Ranch got started (June 13), I left off the story with the discovery of a positive pregnancy test taken in February of 1984, when I was 41. The three older girls were 24, 20, and 16. I called Jerry at work, not sure at all what I’d say when…