In her autobiographical work A Backward Glance, Edith Wharton quotes Henry James as saying, “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.†With summer vacation long gone and summer’s official days waning fast, I must tip my hat to James, a man after my own […]
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Lamenting the End of Summer Vacation
This may come as a surprise to those of you who live in areas where school doesn’t start until after Labor Day, but we are gearing up for the new school year here on the island. In summary, this bites. I am, after all, one who firmly believes that God put the idea of summer […]