Summer (Season) – Page 16

New York’s Communal Summer Ritual: Grilling

Throughout public parks in the city, families, friends and neighbors gather around smoking grates and celebrate the season.

Our last newsletter edition of the season focuses on summer missions accomplished and those still on the to-do list.

We all want to be touched, to be chosen, even at an age when our culture tells us that we are in no way desirable.

San Franciscans are done apologizing for their cold Julys and Augusts. In a time of punishing heat waves, the city likes being a place to chill out.

The city requires its pool lifeguards to meet standards similar to those set for ocean lifeguards, beyond what the state sets.