What did you do on your summer vacay? Did you go elsewhere or staycation? While there, you might have jotted down notes on special sites or experiences or feelings each day. You might have doodled, painted, taken photos. Shopped, like me. (Per comedian Jackie Mason, “I have enough money to last the rest of my life, as long as I don’t buy something.”)

But I’m thinking “adults” with these suggestions. If you’re a kid, remembrances of camp life might be what you bring back. When I was a kid, I was too shy and introverted to dare think of life with a bunch of strange kids, away from home, having to compete in things. So, my brother and I went to “the farm,” a wonderful, ramshackle property outside of Akron, Ohio, that held fun cousins, a terrific aunt and uncle, some cows, some horses, chicke

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