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...

“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...

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...