We can only live vicariously through our children’s experience of these long, hot, languid days.
Much of the country has long since moved into summer break, some having done so as early as in the last weeks of May. New York State schools, sadly, delay summer break interminably. We have an expansive school holiday schedule with a full Christmas and winter break, a spring break, the Jewish high holidays, and several others -- and now Juneteenth is a day off, meaning that the state-mandated number of school days cannot possibly be completed before the final week of June. The past few days, when temperatures have been reaching into triple digits, made the children feel as ...
