Author: T.M. Camp

Offices

October 22, 2017 at 6:04 pm
Goodbye Chet - T.M. Camp

This past week I conducted two sacred offices, both equally difficult in their own right. On Thursday, I was the foreman in a jury and delivered our verdict to the court. After nine days of witnesses, evidence, argument, and deliberations, we found the defendant guilty on all five counts. It […]

The Long Year

September 23, 2016 at 3:00 pm
T.M. Camp - photo by Tracy Thomas

As I write this, the second wave of copies of The Red Boy are shipping out to people who have placed orders. After so long, it is be a relief to see this book going out into the world. For a project that was relatively easy to write and has […]

Grandpa was…

May 24, 2015 at 4:21 pm

My wife wrote this eulogy for her grandfather, Kensinger Jones. She read it at his memorial service last month. Since the service, people who knew and loved Ken have been asking for a copy (including me). I think it’s lovely. (I don’t have a photo of Keeley and Ken together, […]

Periscope

April 30, 2015 at 4:39 pm

I’ve talked about this before, but the latest surge in popularity for live video streaming apps like Periscope has reminded me of the digital clock I used to watch from my bedroom window late at night: …and when I was young, I’d look out my window at night. There was […]

Kensinger Jones

March 10, 2015 at 4:14 pm

I first met Ken Jones on Thanksgiving Day in 2004. We hit it off. Not surprising, as we had a lot of things in common. Each of us had been lucky enough to fall into careers in Advertising. We both discovered a love of books and writing at an early […]

“When there is trap set up for you…”

February 10, 2015 at 10:18 am

It’s been a while since I posted some music — hell, it’s been a while since I posted anything, I know. This song has been with me for a few days now (my middle daughter is taking accordion lessons). I’d forgotten how much I like it. And there’s an Underworld […]

Goodbye 2014

January 1, 2015 at 12:33 pm

“Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall […]

Context

November 24, 2014 at 11:38 pm

This is a true story. One afternoon this past summer, my 19-year-old son was walking down the middle of the street in a neighborhood here in our town.  A car pulled up behind him.  My son did not move out of the road, just kept walking. After a moment the […]

“…and we change with them.”

October 26, 2014 at 11:11 pm

When I moved to Michigan in 1996, one of the first things I set out to do in my new hometown was find a comic book store. Finding the right comic book store is like finding the right church. And more difficult in a town where there is a church […]

“Come back here and give me my daughter…”

October 14, 2014 at 9:13 am

Busy times right now, just a quick share of a song that’s been rattling around in my head for the past few days. Still holds up, yeah? There’s also a very nice acoustic version of it out there as well. It occurs to me that this song relates to a […]