MEGAN GILBERT is a Brooklyn-based writer. Her stories, essays, profiles, interviews, posts, and reviews have appeared in Union Station Magazine, New York Press, Paste magazine, Deadspin, Zoom-In Online, Laughspin, the National Book Foundation’s website, and Underwater New York. She is a senior copywriter for Gawker Media and holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Megan is working on a novel. You can follow her at it-hardly-matters.tumblr.com or twitter.com/ithardlymatt3rs.
After four years in England, I know that summer is not the season of budding trees, shy morning sunlight, blue skies, and merry picnics on the grass that my Midwestern…