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  • Courageous Camp Counselors

    Teenage summer camp counselors expect to help young campers with nightmares and homesickness. They don’t usually expect to have to save kids’ lives. But early last Friday morning, as raging flash floodwaters rose 30 feet in just one hour, the teenage counselors at legendary Camp Mystic in Texas jumped into action. Along with dedicated camp…

  • Do What You Love

    What do you do when your holiday flight is delayed over an hour after everyone is already on board? Endure cramped leg room and impatient people? What if you could help lighten the mood instead? Army band vet and retired middle school band director Wayne Hoey used his love of music to do just that…

  • High-Five from a Stranger

    Several years ago, I was training for a long-distance race, and I was scheduled to complete a 20-mile training run. Unfortunately, I was early in the planning process and ran out of water and fuel around mile 12 (with no access to replenish my supplies before the end of the run). Without a better option,…