The summer, with it's travel plans, camping trips, longer warmer days, swimming opportunities, visitors, and unscheduled free time (at least for my children) always leaves me with a sense of melancholy and relief. I admit I am a little happy to return to checklists and predictable schedules. Like alium plants hunker down in winter and gather their energy in their firm pearly underground bulbs, I relish that hunker-down sensation after a long hot wild summer...