It’s summer. Let’s be bored together.

Another year of school has come and gone leaving moms and dads wondering � how did that happen? And more importantly � now what?

I remember when the last day of school wasn�t about trophies, certificates and pins, but rather hugging the bus driver good bye and jumping out of the school bus emergency exit.� It was a great time and we had full license to be bored.� Summers meant bare feet and sticky fingers and chins. Counting the hours until Jan, �the mail lady� arrived in her red, white and blue 1970s mail jeep, bringing us bills, letters�. and tootsie rolls! Drag races on my lavender bike with the rainbow banana seat.� Popping �tar bubbles with our toes, and then of course, walking on mom�s white shag carpet. And maybe if we were very lucky, a visit from the ice cream truck.

We were bored and out of that was birthed something organically fantastic.� Creativity, problem solving, interpersonal skills, time management. The exact same things that today we send our kids away to a gazillion camps and classes to learn.� So what if you could live in a place where it was ok to slow down a little�. and scary thought� even have time to be�bored?� I think that would be pretty swell and happen to know just the place.

//Jennifer Howard, Communications Director for Summers Corner