I dreamed I was in a camp bathroom fixing my hair and makeup and a girl came out of a stall. She told me we need to get our bags to our cabin. I replied, “Okay.” I got my bags together and... Read more >>

My oldest daughter attended her first summer day camp earlier this month. She ran to me waving a blue flier one day after school raving on and on about this particular camp. Horseback riding... Read more >>

1. Your mini-van’s runners squeak under the weight of sand, lollipop sticks, broken crayons, and hopeful optimism that this summer, you won’t run out of swim diapers by noon.  2.... Read more >>

It’s been a weird summer. It’s strange that I am headed to Martha’s Vineyard on this, one of the final weekends of the summer. My girlfriends and I have been doing this trip for... Read more >>

Activities Our expedition leader, Abner Inzunza, would announce the next day’s schedule at dinner. Days began with coffee at 7:00 a.m. and breakfast at 8:00 a.m. before we went off to the... Read more >>

Send Yourself to Summer Camp Maybe you had the opportunity to go away to summer or sports camp as a kid. I didn’t, but I certainly made up for it when I sent myself on an Earth River Expedition... Read more >>

It’s the first week of summer camp for my soon-to-be second- and fifth-graders. And my mommy guilt is in overdrive. It happens every summer. The first couple weeks of camp are always an... Read more >>

Gussied up meant some lip gloss and a pink mini-skirt, and I was gussied up. As the telltale opening chords of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” played, we knew the stakes were... Read more >>

I just had a vision: my three children home on a school day with n-o-t-h-i-n-g to do except complain and bother one another ... Oh that right, Friday is the first day of summer “vacation”... Read more >>

Well, the school district has several days before the officially declared spring break where parents and teachers have conferences about the status of the child in the respective class. The... Read more >>