Last week, I wrote about various summer beach activities, including swimming, shelling, synchronized swimming moves, and beach games. But as we all know, summer on the island (and off-island, I’m sure, as well) brings with it much, much more. And so, what’s gone down on the island of late? First, the storms that have swept […]
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The Summer List for 2013
It’s time for my annual summer list, the list I make every summer of things I want to make a point to do during the course of the summer. My lists for 2011 and for 2012 have included everything from pitchers of pink lemonade to full days spent on a tube in the Atlantic. Each […]
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Full-on Summer: Part Two
My younger son is a great one for creativity. He can conjure up the craziest ideas out of seemingly nothing. Summer then, with all of its glorious release from structured activities, provides any number of outlets for him. Allow me to share a few recent examples. This is the Call Me Flag Boy Game. In […]
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Full-on Summer: Part One
In celebration of the first day of summer coming this Friday, I’m beginning a series of posts on our summer festivities/observations/stuff of late. I anticipate no particular rhyme or reason to this series. It may or may not make much sense. So let’s talk about yesterday. Yesterday, for example, included lots of wave action. As […]
Thoughts on the Sea #4
I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied. John Masefield, “Sea Fever†Also see Thoughts #1, #2, and #3.
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Out of the Mouths of Kindergartners
Among the graduating kindergarten clan at the small people’s school, there’s a fierce rumor going around about first grade and how the first grade teachers up the discipline game a little. One day after school, my daughter came home brimming with information meticulously gleaned during recess that day. “Mommy, if you are naughty and get […]