Those Country Club Kids

Mia Hayes
4 min readJun 24, 2022

Day camp, feral children, and the impact of over-scheduling

Photo by Mikhail Nilov: Pexels

The driving range stretches out to my right and directly ahead, the Potomac River snakes around small, lush islands. The pub doesn’t open for another ten minutes, but the verandah is already busy. I’ve been sitting here for nearly two hours trying to figure out what to write. I turned in my book draft to my developmental editor earlier this week and now, I want…

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Mia Hayes

40-something trying to live several lifetimes at once. Stay-at-home author, mom, and wife.