Camp reunion preparations

I learned that singing with female voices around a campfire is a powerful, almost magical experience.

From Sleepaway, Laurie Susan Kahn


S'Mores
Serves 1
A green stick
2 marshmallows
1 graham cracker
4 Squares of plain chocolate

Put the marshmallows on your stick.
Toast them over the coals to a crispy,
gooey, golden brown. Break the graham
cracker in half. Place the chocolate on a
graham cracker half, then mush the marsh-
mallows on top. Squish down using the other
cracker half. If you're lucky, the heat of the
marshmallow will met the chocolate. Eat.


Two (one called to decline due to a terrible cough)very dear friends from the late '60s & early '70s, well forever friends really, are coming for dinner tonight. We worked at a Camp Fire Girls camp(Camp Kiwanee, Hanson, MA.) about 5 minutes from here, for several summers. Two of us were campers there as well. It was a classic and beautifully rustic sleepaway camp of the late 5o's. Today we'll run(ha!) around the camp in the afternoon and come back here for dinner. A time of celebrating our friendship with laughs, sharing tears and memories over the deaths of two dear mutual friends. We'll hopefully sit around our fire pit and sing old camp songs and make S'Mores. We plan to have a skype session with one in California and maybe one in Wisconsin who couldn't be with us. Our sick pal will be on the phone as well. I 'm excited.

Raspberry is helping with the preparations.

For the Record,
This day came in sunny and cold, a perfect Autumn day. We turn the clocks back tonight.