It's not just my role at a YMCA that focuses me on youth.  Since way before Lionel Richie brought so many rock stars together for "We are...

I think of the Waldo County YMCA as a public resource. That was reinforced two summers ago.  The family was visiting from Texas was...

It’s February.  Goals are at the top of my mind!  I love all the new faces I see at the WCY, pursuing their own health goals.  (I loved...

I am excited that Christmas and the start of Channukah coincided this year. Someone told me that only occurs every 18 years. That means...

"There is a light that shines beyond all things on Earth, Beyond us all, Beyond the heavens, Beyond the highest, the very highest...

On November 11, Veteran's Day, we closed the WCY and brought in the full staff, full and part time, for an in-service day. During that...

Over the course of a month, so much happens at the WCY, so many snippets and vignettes call out to be written about.  And I get caught up...

I am thinking a lot about my wife, Sarah, because a year ago, my colleagues at the WCY, the Board, and you gave me the gift of spending...

Lots going on in my mind this week.  I’ll try to weave it into a coherent narrative.  The headline is, however, that I am ever grateful...

We have two Atlantic Challenge 2024 teams staying at the WCY this week as they prepare for the contest next week. I will write more...

Last Monday, I arrived early in the morning to welcome the first summer campers back to the WCY.  Faith Boynton, our Youth Development...

May 31, 2024 Dear Friends, As we reach the halfway point in of the year (Can’t believe it!  Seems like this year is flying by!) and as we...

"Our lives make a difference in what the world becomes. We either help build this world up in Love or tear it apart. Either way, we...

Dear Friends, Happy Spring! Spring symbolizes renewal for me.  And that has been on my mind for months.  In my time here, I’ve seen  our...

Dear Friends, March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Or so I've heard.  I've also heard people say that our three best...

February has always struck me as an unwanted month, like the box of stuff at the back of the closet that you only keep so that you have a...

Dear Friends, I spend the last few days of each year and the first few days reviewing what happened and thinking about what I want to...

Every Thanksgiving, my father read Art Buchwald’s Thanksgiving column about explaining the holiday to people from France. The column is...

Youth soccer players in Waldo County know Kali McCarthy as a coach and Y-league soccer organizer. She's been doing it for 10 years. Two...

We have a lot going on in our state, in our country, and in our personal lives right now. This poem, by Hafiz, a Persian poet, struck a...