Then this past weekend my husband took our oldest child on a father-daughter camping trip and I stayed behind with our four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son.
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Camping at home, I started to read about depression during odd spurts of energy.
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Winstead, the cook, sets up a metal dining table that seats six--something I've never seen on a camping trip before.
Casting aside the usual prohibition on wearing shorts in Manhattan (this is one way we pick out tourists), six colleagues and I switched into our best approximations of camping dress and dove through my office full of outdoor gear to find anything that would help us stay cool.
The overall effect of all this was of a long-term but makeshift camping site and the overwhelming impression I had was one of squalor.
Soon I was inviting friends to Utah for the festival, camping out overnight for tickets and sitting through as many as four films a day.
While my camping colleagues all had only one room, I could invite others over to lounge and chat in my 3 room tent mansion: Welcome to Chez Jess!
There will be communications gear so that I can transmit stories and images, and also the usual camping gear.
"I think camp fires are one of the biggest growth areas where people want to go back to camping as it was when they were kids, " he said.
We award 150 children the one-week scholarships to the camp, and I work with several social agencies and school systems to select girls and boys who would benefit from the camping experience.
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