my girl and her guy

I’m having a great time with my daughter this visit, especially the first day when she was accompanied by her new fella. After all, who could resist this kind of wild-and-crazy fun — two fools…

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autumn’s (not!) here (yet)

Hawksley Workman’s gorgeously mournful “Autumn’s Here” keeps playing in my head, altho’ I’m so far refusing to actually pull out the CD. Besides the jellyfish washing up on the beach and the blackberries ripening faster…

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Disturbing the kids?

I love the flexibility of this blog-writing — in fact, I’m rediscovering that I love writing itself. Because I have this outlet, I tend to push little thoughts into coalescence. Random observations spin themselves into…

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rocking the dangerous wildlife here! and anniversary greetings!

Okay, first it was a surprise wasps’ nest. Then I found this on the beach when I paddled home the other morning. It’s really quite beautiful, isn’t it? Here’s a closer look:And then here it…

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That’s my boy. . .

My son commented on the phone the other evening that he’d read my latest blog post and thought it was cool that we were doing the 100-mile diet. I reminded him that what I’d said…

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