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TLC Blog - Here Comes 50!
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

Neal Hagberg
Oct 16


TLC Blog - Who Are We Without This? Who Are We With This?
When Liz Retzlaff, Angie Flake and Jordan Langer approached me near the beginning of my time as TLC Director (15 years and counting, how...

Neal Hagberg
Apr 25


TLC Blog - Be Brave. Go For It.
“Be brave. Go for it.” These were the inner words Madison Keys spoke to herself near the close of the finals of the tight-as-a-drum third...

Neal Hagberg
Jan 30


TLC Blog – Before Steve
Before Steve, I did not know that an ego could be tamed with three words: serenity, courage, wisdom I did not know that fear could be...

Neal Hagberg
Jan 21


TLC Solstice Blog - What is Light to You?
We are in the season when we become more aware of light because of the absence of it as the days grow shorter and nights longer. When...

Neal Hagberg
Dec 21, 2024
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