Kim Payne was recently interviewed for the Chicago Tribune on creating simple summers. Start reading below.

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Summer, come back

It’s time to wallow in this season of gentle, blissful breathing

By Barbara Mahany, Tribune Newspapers

May 28, 2010

So, you’re checking your watch, keeping your eyeballs glued to the calendar. You are counting down the days, the hours, the minutes to summertime, aren’t you?

You think, “Aha! At last, the season of kick-back days and don’t-hurry-to-bed nights.”

You’ve got plans for a lemonade stand. Maybe even squeeze it from lemons. Heck, you’ll show the kiddies how to build a fort in the trees. Sit out under the stars, keeping watch on the fireflies.

Hulloooo. What year did you think this was?

Your dreams are so Long Ago.

This is 2010, people. Kids need to be fed, packed, shooshed onto the camp bus, oh, just after daybreak. And don’t forget about the dueling sports dates, with soccer starting on one field at 5, while baseball gets underway, three miles away, at half past that very same hour.

What happened to summer?, we cry into our store-bought lemonade.

Unwilling to give up our hopes and our dreams, we dialed up a fellow we’d like to claim as our summertime hero.

Continue reading the article in the Chicago Tribune…