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Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Chief Dumb Luck

This past week has been bubbling with Camp Roger songs, stories, cabin chants and jokes. I delighted to watch my quiet nephew tell a shaggy dog story to his grandpa and grama, Ben and Lucy chiming in details or just bursting into laughter as they anticipated the good parts. So Ben may have just picked […]

Letters

I’ve been reading through some old letters this week.  They’re from a friend who died many years ago and they make my memory of him shine.  His writing was just like his personality:  sparkling, irreverent, delighted with life and himself. He wrote me letters on the back of postcards, wedging in 200 hundred words where […]

Home

They loved it.  The kids went to Camp Roger for 4 nights and loved it.  When I picked Ben up, the first thing he said to me was “I want to stay.”  He has declared his intention to do the 7-night camp next year and is planning to be a counselor as soon as they’ll […]

Away

Another Swedberg milestone — and while this one may involve bugs, I won’t have to deal with them. Ben and Lucy are at overnight camp. I dropped them off yesterday afternoon for 4 nights at Camp Roger in Rockford, Michigan. My mom and dad came with us because this is the same camp my mother […]

Errata

We apologize for not identifying the photographer from the last post.  The very artsy Harry Potter photo was taken by Ben Swedberg.

I’d like to say a few words

A few weeks ago, Karl and I kept our promise to Ben and took him to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in the theatre.  It was such fun that I went home and immediately began re-reading the whole series.  I was so transported that I felt as if the real world was intruding […]