camp Archives - Robin Dance

Violet love: a camp memoir

by Robin | Feb 22, 2011 | Camp Days, Favorite things, Kids, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Personal

Sometimes I miss, even long for, the naïveté of youth. Then is the time for free and innocent expression… before you realize sometimes words have dual meaning. For me, summers at the all-girls Jennie Arnold Edwards Y Camp in the 70s...

Every mom should earn a million dollars

by Robin | Jun 11, 2010 | Family, Humor, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Photos, Poetry, Teens & Tweens

The Malodorous Plight of Mother and Son "The foulest stench is in the airThe funk of forty thousand years*"I hold my breath, near despairWicked boys, give way to cheers.Confined within too small a spacePutrid, vile, scent-clouds descendI cover nose,...