And here we are. At the start of my 67th New Year (if you count being in the womb for my first), I have more questions than answers and have learned that (probably obvious to the rest of you) until you ask a question, you are not going to be on your way to an answer. So pick one (or more) for you to ask yourself and answer as the New Year begins. What do I love about my life that I want to continue doing in the coming year? What do I want to do differently next year if I can?

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Solstice kind of person. He saw the darkest of dark hearts in humanity and he saw what most of us don’t realize: darkness does not have to win. We are stronger than that. We are better than that. We have in us light we never even knew we could shine until we were faced with darkness. Just as the earth turns towards the light starting on this day of Solstice - and it doesn’t happen all at once, but incrementally - we get to choose to turn towards t

TLC is built on Joy.  And serving others. Steve used to say true joy comes from serving others. But Joy is not the absence of pain, it is acknowledging suffering and saying I can move forward with the help and love of those around me. It is being able to see a broken world and the brokenness in ourselves and acknowledge that we may not be able to change everything, but we can change something. It is being able to see someone who is on the outside looking in who has not had a

50 Things I Love About TLC 1. Soft serve ice cream! (And you thought I was going to start deep) 2. When everything goes still and everyone is lying down looking at the sky with a Gratitude Minute 3. High fiving a four-year-old 4. High fiving an 84-year-old 5. Campers and staff high fiving whatever-year-olds 6. Seeing campers hunched over thank you notes writing to staff between lessons 7. Seeing instructors hunched over thank you notes writing campers after a long day 8. Thre

When Liz Retzlaff, Angie Flake and Jordan Langer approached me near the beginning of my time as TLC Director (15 years and counting, how...