Summer is for beaches and camping and berry picking…but sometimes summer can be such a blur of activity and juggling schedules that before we know it, our families are facing back to school and we realize that there are some old summer standbys that we never got the chance to experience… I grew up in the country–on the side of a mountain in the Pacific Northwest and, despite the danger and the discomfort–I spent a big chunk of my childhood in bare feet. After all, it wasn’t summer until I had both stepped on a nail and a bee–it was … Continue reading →