Thanks for Visiting RCSTORIES Randolph Randy Camp is the author of COREVILLE PARK, a reggae novel, 'MONICA, A SHORT STORY COLLECTION and five previous novels, including the prize-winning Wet Matches, America: No Purchase Necessary, 29 Dimes, False Dandelions, and ...Then The Rain. Randy currently resides in Des Moines, Iowa. Randy has five daughters, Christina, Melinda, Randie, Ranielle, Natasha and one son Joshua.
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Books, the Ticket to Anywhere
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
A Blessing Came Today
Sunday, June 1, 2025
High Praise For Teachers and Librarians Everywhere!
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Let The People Read, Let The Teachers Teach!
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Books for Everyone!
Friday, May 20, 2022
School The Politicians
Saturday, September 11, 2021
America: Writing Love
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
The Teacher in You
This on-going pandemic has definitely changed our lives. Some of you parents have become teachers, whether you'd wanted to be or not. And, to your own surprise, maybe you're the greatest teacher ever. In a way, there's a teacher inside all of us. This pandemic has brought that to the forefront.
If you're doing a lot of teaching and schooling at home, please don't forget to utilize one of your greatest assets, which is your local library.
For any parent or teacher, creating your syllabus and following your state's strict curriculum guidelines can be a real challenge. But, finding a way, maybe a creative way, to set aside let's say an hour or so per week, for your kids (students) to simply talk about anything they want to is arguably your greatest tool as a teacher.
In school settings, a student's classroom participation is a vital part of his or her final grade, but sometimes the quiet kid in class gets misjudged. It's common knowledge that these quiet students have a lot of hard stuff on their minds, especially nowadays with the pandemic going on, and at times, their 'stuff' is traumatic and not so easy to speak about. (Similar to military veterans, like myself, coping with hidden scars and a tendency to bottle things up.) But given the right avenue or outlet, even the quiet kid comes out of his or her shell and momentarily at least, they'll have their moment and comfortably feel relaxed enough to share some of their more-deeper thoughts with the class.
Back in elementary school, 'Show n' Tell' time was great because it laid the foundation for some of you who currently have no issues whatsoever with public speaking. As a student gets older, they may or may not have teachers who will set aside classroom time for them to talk openly about their 'stuff'. But for those teachers who do create these special moments the payoff is great.
I feel so strongly about this issue that I created 'Sit n' Talk' time in my latest short novel 'America: No Purchase Necessary', whereby Miss Pritchett's students gets to speak about whatever they want to in front of the entire class.
Lastly, although it's challenging, try to enjoy the teacher in you. (It can be rewarding sometimes....and please utilize and take advantage of your local library whenever possible.) - Randolph Randy Camp
More at https://www.amazon.com/author/randolphcamp
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Dr. Randie Camp...Finding Home
Thursday, June 4, 2015
A Writer's Ego
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Friday, March 20, 2015
Free Book Saturday
For all of the kids and book lovers across the globe, I would like to see everyone in the world do something and get involve to make sure that anyone who wants a book is able to get a book. And one way this feat can be accomplished is having a worldwide ‘FREE BOOK SATURDAY’ event.
The plan is quite simple, and the real beauty of ‘Free Book Saturday’ is that it won’t cost anyone a single penny. On a Saturday morning (and we can start tomorrow Saturday, March 21, 2015), simply gather up any books in which you’ve already read and maybe now is collecting dust on the shelf and place them on your front porch along with a handmade sign or a makeshift flag indicating “FREE BOOKS!”
Just by chance, your ‘free books’ could be the very books that brightens the life of a sad child who couldn’t get to the public library for various reasons. Let’s all pinch in and try to put a smile on a book lover’s face. Let’s make this a success and an ongoing worldwide global event – “FREE BOOK SATURDAY!” So, please pass the word and Share this post. Thanks, Randolph Randy Camp
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Books: The Great Escape
To me, finding an interesting book to read was like eating a big piece of yellow cake with thick layers of chocolate frosting! Yep, you got it — I was certainly a book nerd…and I’m proud to say that I still am. It has always bothered me to walk into a house or an apartment and find no reading materials whatsoever laying around, especially if I know that school-age kids are living there. Without offending a few of my neighbors, I’ve donated a book or two to their household so that the children would have something to read.
Books have the ability to fly you away to some colorful, fantastic land when you live on a dismal urban street infested with gangs and drug dealers. If you live in the middle of nowhere, where the nearest neighbor is three miles away, books can fly you away to some exotic paradise and bring you back whenever you like. Yes indeed, books are amazing, and I hope that your personal library collection is expanding and expanding. – Randolph Randy Camp
More at http://www.goodreads.com/randolphcamp
Monday, September 15, 2014
I Love Books!
Today, I'm truly blessed to do something that I truly love, which is writing novels.
This photo was taken just outside the Buffalo Central Library. To me, having a public library card and actually utilizing the numerous services of your public library, is a great way to 'meet the world' , regardless of your family's income level. - Randolph Randy Camp
Saturday, August 30, 2014
The Wishful Traveler
When I’d joined the US Air Force (after high school) I was able to travel the globe and actually visit some of the places and cultures I’d read about as a child.
I was fascinated by the Australian Aborigines, and when I was fifteen years old, I took part in my own ‘walkabout’. Let me explain: When I was 15, I went on a ‘journey’ from my rural hometown in Virginia to the bustling City of Philadelphia. Well, the juvenile court system said that I was a ‘runaway, and you should’ve seen the look on their faces when I tried to explain to them that I was simply on ‘my walkabout’.
Thank God for the US Air Force because during my numerous overseas tours, I was very fortunate to visit one of my favorite places, which is Japan. Not only did I visit mainland Japan while traveling in the Air Force, but I also got a chance to see the Island of Okinawa, Japan as well.
I certainly know what it’s like to ‘want to see the world’ but you maybe stuck in a financial bind and unable to fly and travel at will. Please take a lesson from me and just go to your local public library and you’ll be amazed at how far those books will take you. - Randolph Randy Camp
Learn more at http://www.goodreads.com/randolphcamp
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Something To Read
Monday, March 4, 2013
Randy Camp Being Honored at Buffalo Public Library
Author details available at GOODREADS http://www.goodreads.com/randolphcamp and at PINTEREST http://pinterest.com/rcstories
Although I’d originally wrote ‘NEW K.A.N.S.A.S.’ as a live action feature, it could also work as an ANIMATED feature-length movie as well. (The ‘Kansas’ in NEW K.A.N.S.A.S. stands for Kids’ Alliance National Society And Sanctuary)
U.S. Copyright: PAu002651984 (Original Screenplay Draft/ Author: Randolph Camp)
Learn more at AUTHORS DEN http://www.authorsden.com/randolphrcamp and WRITERS NET http://www.writers.net/writers/81919
‘NEW K.A.N.S.A.S.’ (Kids’ Alliance National Society And Sanctuary)
Monday, February 4, 2013
Jesse and LaBrea: An Interracial Love Story From False Dandelions
Exiting the bus is Jesse Raine and LaBrea Woods. Sweethearts since last summer, the interracial couple raise a few eyebrows around the county. Jesse stands tall wearing a confident, big country smile. LaBrea's flawless brown skin and curvaceous body, wrapped tightly in stylish jeans, turns all the boys' heads. LaBrea blushes. Nonchalantly, Jesse continues to spread his cowboy grin. LaBrea bends over to pluck a white, lollipop head of tiny weightless spheres then playfully blows them off the flower head. The air is filled with a white cloud of floating dandelion wishes. Roland, a Black boy who has been trying to get LaBrea's attention, shifts his eyes on her curvy backside as Jesse's white hand gently slides into his girlfriend's back pocket. Consumed with jealousy, Roland sighs then turns up his lip in distaste.
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