The Best Summer
What makes a summer the best ever?
Maybe it’s watermelon and sunshine.
Maybe it’s hiking in the mountains, swimming in the lake, or basking on the beach.
When I was a kid, it was lazy days on the lake, fishing, swimming, and waterskiing. Camping for an entire week. Visits to family in the South. Riding bikes in the street with my friends.
When I was teaching, it was the mere fact of summer break. Getting all the projects done. Cleaning the house from top to bottom. Spending time with the kids and grandparents camping and exploring.
I don’t remember any one particular best summer.
But there were moments. Big dreams. Big plans. All the hope for someday.
Maybe that’s what summer is. Possibility.
This summer I’m looking forward to hiking, lazy drives in the country, and sunsets. Planting pumpkins, watching sunflowers bloom, and finding cool new spots to hang out with my dogs.
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And reading some fabulous new releases. Like Rachel Hauck’s The Best Summer of Our Lives. It promises all the things of summer.
What was your best summer ever? Or the one you planned would be great?
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Back Cover Copy:
Twenty years ago, the summer of ’77 was supposed to be the best summer of Summer Wilde’s life. She and her best friends, Spring, Autumn, and Snow–the Four Seasons–had big plans.
But those plans never had a chance. After a teenage prank gone awry, the Seasons found themselves on a bus to Tumbleweed, “Nowhere,” Oklahoma, to spend eight weeks as camp counselors. All four of them arrived with hidden secrets and buried fears, and the events that unfolded in those two months forever altered their friendships, their lives, and their futures.
Now, thirtysomething, Summer is at a crossroads. When her latest girl band leaves her in a motel outside Tulsa, she is forced to face the shadows of her past. Returning to the place where everything changed, she soon learns Tumbleweed is more than a town she never wanted to see again. It’s a place for healing, for reconciling the past with the present, and for finally listening to love’s voice.