The Sometimes Difference Between Boys

NVC Family Camp, Vashon Island. The dinner bell rings. Trinidad sits bolt upright in our tent and snaps his book closed.

Trin: That's the dinner bell, and I've vowed to myself to always be first in line for every meal. (He unzips the fly and leaves the tent.)


Sam (sitting up slowly and reaching to move a lock of hair from in front of his mother's face): That's the dinner bell, and I've vowed to always be right where I am. And that is a vow I will never break.