Growing up Camden

By Dwight Collins

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• Change is one of the few constants in life

  By Dwight Collins - Jul 06
  Camden - Not to sound cliché, but all good things come to an end. A month ago I made the tough decision to leave The Camden Herald and VillageSoup as a way ...
  

• Waiting with Ma for the light to come on

  By Dwight Collins - Apr 07
  Camden - One of the things Ma [my mother] and I used to do together is eat. We both loved to eat and eat out. Although she really couldn't afford it, we ...
  

• Things I learned on a wrestling mat

  By Dwight Collins - Jan 28
  Camden - This time of year — wrestling season — I am knee-deep in little mat rats trying to learn the sport of the gods and I'm reminded that life is much ...
  

• I can tolerate you in three ways

  By Dwight Collins - Nov 19
  Camden - Merriam-Webster defines tolerance in three ways. The capacity to endure pain or hardship; sympathy of indulgence for beliefs or practices differing...
  

• Who are you anyway?

  By Dwight Collins - Oct 15
  Camden - Having the ability to identify a behavior that is detrimental and change that behavior is not changing who you are. I am tired of hearing people ...
  

• When youth fades, find more youth and teach them

  By Dwight Collins - Aug 27
  A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to listen to former United States Sen. George Mitchell speak about his book and give his perspective on the ...
  

• You can't come back if there is no setback

  By Dwight Collins - Jul 23
  Camden - It is not a secret that my life revolves around my kids, work and wrestling. Not the wrastlin' my grandfather use to watch on television, but ...
  

• Thank-you to two of the greats

  By Dwight Collins - Jun 17
  Camden - Over the last month, Camden has lost two individuals that not only made an impact on my life, but the lives of so many others in the community. I ...
  

• We need more dads like Ben Cartwright

  By Dwight Collins - Feb 26
  Like everyone else I am going stir-crazy with the inability to get out and do anything because of the amount of snow and the cold. I normally love ...
  

• Forgiveness can open any door

  By Dwight Collins - Dec 29
  Camden - Along my journey the one thing that I found to be true is that the key to being able to get on with your life is finding the strength to forgive. Y...
  

• I do not know everybody, but my dad does

  By Dwight Collins - May 05
  Camden - I was standing in line at Scott's Place the other day at lunch and a memory came as strong as the smell of onions cooking on the flat top grill ...
  

• The battles on Mt. Battie

  By Dwight Collins - Feb 25
  Camden - I am not a conspiracy kind of guy, however I have been training for an attack on Camden by enemy forces since I was a kid. Growing up in Camden ...
  

• What do you mean it's gonna snow?

  By Dwight Collins - Dec 29
  Camden - So here I sit in my office looking out the window, pondering what I might write about and all of a sudden it hit me — it's snowing. The first snow ...
  

• I am not a salmon

  By Dwight Collins - Nov 05
  Camden - I often use flowing water as a metaphor. The flowing river is the current of life, carrying us along a path of least resistance to that place in ...
  

• Watch where you are going or you will trip on the dog

  By Dwight Collins - Sep 10
  Camden - Setting goals is important; without goals there is no direction. If you are taking a trip you plug a destination into the GPS and start off on the ...
  

• Constant reminders to live life to the fullest

  By Dwight Collins - Aug 11
  Camden - Everyday we are reminded how short and precious life can be, but yet we refuse to do anything about it. Some have found that “golden ticket” that ...
  

• Enough with the madness — oh did I offend you?

  By Dwight Collins - Jul 09
  Camden - So there seems to be a lot of people that are just offended... period. Mostly, it's people who when the truth comes out are just offended by ...
  

• The dying art of communication

  By Dwight Collins - Mar 26
  Recent experience tells me that the longer we as parents allow children — anybody's children — to engage in social media the greater the chance ...
  

• I still love whitewater rafting

  By Dwight Collins - Jan 15
  Camden - Of all of the elements, water is the only one that can move you under its own power. I use water a lot as a metaphor for life, because much like a ...
  

• Do the work to reap the reward

  By Dwight Collins - Dec 19
  Camden - I would rather fail a million times than ever have to swallow the bitter pill of regret. Regret is cancer of the soul and once it is there you can ...