Personal Narrative: Dawn Cazzolli's Home

WOOSTER — Dawn Cazzolli’s job is stressful. She is the executive director of the Wayne County Children’s Advocacy Center, which looks into allegations of sexual and severe physical abuse.

“It’s stressful and people get burned out, but when you look around the table, there’s people who are just as passionate about child safety and child welfare,” she said. “I think of it as a calling.”

To help Cazzolli recharge, she, her husband, Andy, and their children, Greyson, 15, and Sophia, 13, like to go camping, “into nature where birds are singing, where I feel the breeze, to bike, hike and see so many flowers.

“It definitely helps bring some peace,” she said. “The quiet is soothing.”

The family tries to take one non-camping trip a year, and they usually take some extended weekends to camp. They have had fun in places like the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee; Massanutten, Pa.; Daytona Beach, Fla., and Ponce de Leon Inlet, Fla., and Milwaukee.

During the trip, a boat took them out into the ocean and dropped them off on a sandbar. While there, they searched for and collected sand dollars.

Just down the road from Daytona is Ponce de Leon, and they visited the lighthouse there. Her husband, who does not like heights, wasn’t so sure he wanted to scale the spiraling staircase to the top of the lighthouse, but he ultimately went