Outdoors; Kids catch perfect topic for essay on how they spent their summer vacation. Updated: ; Aug. 24, 2012, 6:43 p.m. | Published: ; Aug. 24, 2012, 5:43 p.m.

Few things strike fear into the hearts of seventh graders like the prospect of having to write an essay titled: "What I Did on My Summer Vacation." There are many reasons for this fear, which is-in my ...

It was the fall of 1964, and my mother was determined to take my family on a seashore vacation the next summer. The glass Hellmann’s mayonnaise jar she washed out after Thanksgiving dinner was ...