It Just Doesn’t Matter… But of course, it does! “It just doesn’t matter! It just doesn’t matter!” So went the cheer that Bill Murray led to fire up his campers in the over-the-top camp movie, Meatballs. The ragtag group of campers from (the fictional) Camp North Star battled their arch... read more
Water, Water Everywhere We have more drinking fountains at Camp Mishawaka now than we did in 1910, if there were any at all back then! At the end of every summer we have dozens of stray water bottles that campers have left behind - even though the vessel has been... read more
The “stupid party” referenced above is me- to set things straight from the start. Sometimes I forget. Sometimes I forget why kids return to Camp Mishawaka. All it takes for me to remember is tolisten to what the kids themselves are saying. It’s not the food, the ski-boat, the ropes... read more
He hasn’t called to thank me for coming up with the idea of “preserving childhood” yet, but if and when he does, I will tell the noted social psychologist and author of The Anxious Generation that he is welcome - more than welcome! I noticed he has been using this... read more
“I used to play lacrosse”, the 10 year-old boy told me as we walked across the main campus at Mishawaka. “It just got to be too much,” he went on. “Practice was at night, and I had soccer practice after school, so I never had any time. I liked it... read more