When I was a kid, summer felt like it lasted an entire year. From the end of May until the first week of September, each day crawled by as I did activities at summer camp, jumping into chlorinated pools and twisting Chinese staircase lanyards taped to wooden picnic tables. It made the coming of sch…

In the ever-growing backlog of posts I've been meaning to get to, my bachelorette party post is currently glaring at me, sitting at the tip-top of the pile. I've always been the type that said she didn't want a stripper or the typical nightclub-style experience for my bachelorette part…