Kiss the Cook: Zucchini on the grill? Yes, please!
Summertime is a great time of the year to eat garden fresh vegetables. Recently, a co-worker gave me a nice
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Author: John Zaktansky
Confessions of a kids camp counselor: What we see and hear
The conversation took me back to my college years, when my roommate was a gung-ho video game guru. Except the
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Confessions of a kids camp counselor: Route of the root
Small fingers wrapped carefully around a young dandelion shoot at the edge of a small woodlot. The dirt below it
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Confessions of a kids camp counselor: Degrees of deviation
“Easy set up” it stated in large letters on the box. Just three easy steps: 1. Unfold, 2. Construct, 3.
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Confessions of a kids camp counselor: Attraction to distraction
As a counselor for troubled teenagers at an adolescent group home some years back, it was always amazing to me
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Confessions of a kids camp counselor: Tracking God
A monster white-tail buck roams the woods of Camp Harmony, a Wesleyan-based campground in western Pennsylvania near Johnstown. So does
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Mountain pie iron offers plenty of variety over campfire
A writer with a pencil (or pen or laptop). A carpenter with a hammer. A Little Leaguer tightening a grip
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Pickled lemon adds unique twist to dish
During a recent road trip south, I was talking to my newest friend, Faiza, about Moroccan cooking. She kept mentioning
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Go gourmet on your next campout with shrimp over fire
When it comes to dining during a Memorial Day campout, thoughts may drift to the standard fare of hot dogs
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Offering an ovation to student-actors and school programs
What started as an upbeat interview in an empty Milton High hallway about the successes of the school’s widely popular
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