by Ashley Vaughan | Aug 24, 2026 | Monument
I sure is nice to be home for a while. I love to travel, but being home for about 12 weeks straight will help prepare me for the upcoming competition season when I’ll be gone a lot of the time again. I will post the tournaments I’m heading to as I get them...
by Ashley Vaughan | Aug 17, 2026 | Monument
It was a great summer of camps, but I am happy to be home. I was away for two full weeks, and that was a bit exhausting, esp. when I flew from San Jose, CA to Jacksonville, FL a week ago Sunday, then had to get up the next morning essentially 3 hours earlier and start...
by Ashley Vaughan | Aug 10, 2026 | Monument
I am in Jacksonville, FL for my last camp of the summer. It has been a great set of camps, and the students have been wonderful. But it is time to get back to my family. I will have been gone for two weeks straight, with last week being my 41st wedding anniversary. I...
by Ashley Vaughan | Aug 3, 2026 | Monument
Today, Monday, August 3, is the 41st Anniversary for my wife and I. Can you believe she has put up with me for 41 years? She is a strong woman. We are celebrating this milestone by me being in California doing a Monument Camp. This is how we have celebrated the last 4...
by Ashley Vaughan | Jul 27, 2026 | Monument
This has been a harder last few days than I have had in a while. Not physically. My physical heart is doing great still. Emotionally, it has been tough. This past Saturday, one of my daughters came into my office. She looked very upset and asked to talk to me....
by Ashley Vaughan | Jul 20, 2026 | Monument
I was at church Sunday morning and I was asked if I was in my less busy time now that the Speech and Debate season was over. I chuckled and said that I was flying to Phoenix that afternoon to do a 4 day camp, then Baton Rouge the week after that, then San Jose the...
