Guest blogger Kelly Henkins is a music journalist and blogger – but she’s also a lifelong scout. At the end of 2012, she was kind enough to share the first part of a beautiful and personal perspective on how scouting has impacted her life. I promised part 2 early this year, and while I was a … Continue reading »
Oh, yeah, people! Today is National Girl Scout Cookie Day, and if there was ever a reason to slip on your New Year’s diet resolution, this might be it. Now, I HATED selling cookies as a kid, and I still hate selling pretty much anything as an adult. Things might be different for me today, … Continue reading »
In the last post, we took a look at that bizarre creepy crawler, the scorpion. I’ve always thought I should like them more than I do; I’m a Scorpio by birth, after all. In fact, based on birth place and time, I’m actually a triple Scorpio. So don’t mess with me. Anyway, we’re taking a … Continue reading »
A century ago today, the very first girl scout troop was founded in the United States by Juliette Gordon Low. From that first troop, based in Savannah, GA, Girls Scouts of America has grown into a movement that has touched the lives of over 50 million American women, with over 3 million girls and adult … Continue reading »
Have you seen ‘em? Smart young girls in front of supermarkets and drug stores and Wal-Marts, surrounded by boxes of Thin Mints and Caramel deLites? I haven’t! I haven’t seen a single box of these bad boys this year, and I’m conflicted about this. In January, I’d have scarfed ‘em up by the box, but … Continue reading »
In the last post, I started wrapping up the work done during the camp training I was able to take in early May, and today I thought I’d finish that wrap up by just walking folks through the approximate timeline for the training–it kind of summarizes all the outstanding part of the training not yet … Continue reading »
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve devoted a few posts to camp cooking, inspired by a camp training I took in early May. And while a number of posts have gone into the making and use of that scotch (or box) oven, the truth is that was only a small part of the training … Continue reading »
In the last post, I demonstrated how to make a scotch oven, and we’re picking it up now with a demo of how it actually bakes food. You’ll see that charcoal is an important (essential) part of the process, so I’m using this opportunity to use one of the fire-starters I demonstrated last week to get … Continue reading »
A what? Don’t you mean a dutch oven? Nope. I mean a scotch oven, so named because a liquor box is perfect for the job. I learned this “technology” at a recent camp training, and I was smitten by its capacity to actually bake a meal or dessert. In the video below, you can see … Continue reading »
Gang, this is the second of several posts covering some of the things I learned during a recent camping training for adult scout leaders and volunteers. In the first post, I proved that, against all conventional wisdom, I’m actually capable of starting a fire with a single match. But we’re not always lucky enough to … Continue reading »
