How to Design Your Summer

Have you ever felt, toward the end of a summer, that you wished you’d done more with the season? 

The writer Robertson Davies, put it well: 

“Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather. Circumstances have not allowed me to make a good summer for myself this year…My summer has been overcast by my own heaviness of spirit. I have not had an...