The fall I was 18 years old, our youth pastor, Mark, decided that our youth group needed to go on a fall retreat to a local wilderness camp. We were going to camp in really cool cabins down by the river. We’d have bonfires and s’mores, sailing, volleyball, and a “Challenge Course.” Friday night was [...]

Lucie was four-years-old and had one major goal in life: to be Wonder Woman. (In the late 80s/early 90s, what little girl didn’t have that aspiration?) Meanwhile, her five-year-old brother, Charlie, had quite a different goal in life: to torture Lucie. Even though they were a year apart in age, the little red-heads looked like [...]