This newsletter is arriving in your mailboxes a tad later than we planned this month, but there is a reason. I just kept coming up with more to add to it. I am not kidding. I joke that, when I travel, I come up with ideas. Well, this summer I traveled a lot, so there was lots of time for thinking. Now that I have stopped traveling --- I am going nowhere for the entire month of September --- I am getting some new projects and programs into play.

This summer seemed to just zip by. This week I am on the Outer Banks with my family. We are spending time at the beach, visiting friends and reading lots of books. Today the rain moved in, and instead of getting bummed out, we see that this will give us all a bit more reading and kicking back time. When we get back, the boys will be heading straight to school, and the routine will start all over again, so we are trying to really enjoy these last days. We know that many of you already may be back in school or, like my boys, are headed there next week.

This summer seemed to just zip by. This week I am on the Outer Banks with my family. We are spending time at the beach, visiting friends and reading lots of books. Today the rain moved in, and instead of getting bummed out, we see that this will give us all a bit more reading and kicking back time. When we get back, the boys will be heading straight to school, and the routine will start all over again, so we are trying to really enjoy these last days. We know that many of your kids already may be back in school or, like my boys, are headed there next week.