Tuesday's With Dave

One theme throughout A Hero's Journey: Beyond Little Norway and Olympia Sports Camp is the great many people who we meet on our journey who enrich our lives and our experiences. In the Hero's Journey, these people are called allies. When you coach any week at a camp like Olympia Sports Camp, there may be as many as 40 coaches, 110 staff, and 300 campers who potentially can add so much to the experience. As a coach, the fellow coaches are key to sharing knowledge and passion for sport and helping the younger generation find their path. Their humanity, their humour, their mutual respect and their passion make session, meals, coach's activities, bonfires, or pick up games so much fun. I remember Paul getting a few coaches and counsellors to join in golf competitions on the field after lunch one day. The people make Olympia. People like Paul Brousseau. I had the great fortune to coach with Paul for  the last several years of week 9. A fantastic athlete in his playing days, Pau

With the Kelly Dunham Memorial Foundation Golf Tournament coming up next Friday at the Flamborough Hills Golf Club I felt it necessary to show support to the memory of Kelly and the massive sense of loss so many people feel, especially her husband Doug and her children Ally and Mitch, as well as Marnie and the whole Buchanan family Joy and I will be in Ottawa and unable to attend the tournament but my company Can't Miss Publishing will be sponsoring a hole and there will be three copies of A Hero's Journey: Beyond Little Norway and Olympia Sports Camp on the prize table. I also decided to re-publish a blog entry from April 12, 2021 that captures one of the most poignant interviews from the book writing process. I hope in the re-reading people who love and miss Kelly can find solace. I wish great success for the tournament. Check out kellydunhamfoundation.ca The Olympia family-no air quotes needed   With last Saturday being National Siblings day, the internet was filled with pi

 Thanks for the support, looking to the future Thanksgiving gives us an opportunity to enjoy the love and support of those around us. We all need allies on our journey and its great when family is a foundational level of commitment and shared passion for each other's journey. This Thanksgiving we were lucky enough to host four pillars of encouragement. As we watch and enjoy their journeys, they admire and respect ours. Joy and I were blessed with two amazing children in Nicole and Daniel. They have done great things but more importantly have become adults that any society, and especially their parents, can be proud of. Nicole is a teacher and Daniel is in teachers college and heading into the profession as well. Five years ago Nicole married Bryan Mayes, a young man whose quick wit and intelligent perspective has enhanced our love, and our lives. Joy and I also cherish the relationship with Daniel's girlfriend Rachel Niecke, a beautiful young woman whose empathy makes her a nat