Back when I was a boy, summer days meant rambling though fields and woods, riding bikes over to friends’ houses or down to the city park, and doing everything possible to seem busy so the adults didn’t begin to get ideas about something “constructive” that they thought we ought to be doing instead. Despite periodic indulgences, when cash on hand allowed, in Dairy Queen burgers and shakes, most of us were fit and trim – even skinny. We walked or rode bicycles most everyplace we went and we did our best to go everyplace we could, stretching our young wings as far as they would stretch. Sadly, things have changed – and definitely not for the better.
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