Here's to World Circus Day!
"Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't...
Childhood is Good for Adulthood
Every summer I travel to Colorado and New Hampshire. I return to the families that have been with our camp for years. I return to the...
Let's not teach it out of them.
Without curiosity, real learning, the joyful kind, doesn’t happen. Without the feeling of wonder and a call to investigation,...
Why Circus? Why Survival Skills?
What is Storycamp? The name doesn’t offer many clues. Answering used to be awkward and confusing. I stumbled through it, until one day, I...
Six Ways to Avert Breakdowns in Kids: Self Work as Preventative Medicine
Children learn through observing and we teach (often unconsciously) through modeling. Our lives, filled with information, screens,...
How to Break the Cycle of Bullying
How to Break the Cycle of Bullying: Power Dynamics and Resilience in Children Parenting and working with children in any capacity has its...
Where a Rat Can Be a Mouse
It's Pretend-You're-A-Kid Month! Why? Because I've noticed a heavy loneliness. It's particularly visible this time of year. I see...
Storycamp New Hampshire!
It's true! Our New Hampshire sleep away camp is happening. Water skiing, tubing, the ocean, circus in the woods, building, camping and...
