LESAProject

It is amazing how just a few words can crush someone. How they can hit harder than a Muhammed Ali uppercut, totally unexpected yet so devastating.I was a teenager at the time. My father, younger brother and I had hunted deer religiously every season for years at the Montour Preserve public hunting lands in central Pennsylvania. We were lucky to even see a deer those days, not to mention seeing a deer in the right season and in a safe shooting position.We grew up on a small farm near McEwensville, Pennsylvania, milking cows, raising chickens and turkeys, pigs and a ...

Building a fire is so easy, even a caveman can do it. So being in charge of the bonfire at our son’s 19th birthday party earlier this summer seemed a simple enough responsibility. Until someone was kind enough to remind everyone that the bonfire would be built by a bona fide Eagle Scout. Suddenly, my every move was put under a microscope—from the amount of kindling I gathered to the number of matches I’d need to start the fire. People were grabbing sticks, hot dogs, and marshmallows as quickly as I wanted to grab some Rolaids. Of course, the worry was all for nothing. ...

Building a fire is so easy, even a caveman can do it. So being in charge of the bonfire at our son’s 19th birthday party earlier this summer seemed a simple enough responsibility. Until someone was kind enough to remind everyone that the bonfire would be built by a bona fide Eagle Scout. Suddenly, my every move was put under a microscope—from the amount of kindling I gathered to the number of matches I’d need to start the fire. People were grabbing sticks, hot dogs, and marshmallows as quickly as I wanted to grab some Rolaids. Of course, the worry was all for nothing. ...