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Thousands of Days Found at the Beach

My mom loved the beach. Every other morning of my entire childhood we would pack up the striped sand chairs, fill the red thermos with Country Time lemonade and make tuna salad sandwiches and plastic bags of Ruffles for the cooler. The Clinton town beach, a strip of rocky coast that tentatively meets Long Island [...]

11May2010 | Jillian | 1 comment | Continued
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The News Not The Weather

I remember a tempestuous August storm. It was nothing more than a strong summer rain. But sheets of water were falling from the sky and collecting in quick inches on our street and I was scared. My parents flung open the doors and stood outside to marvel at the intensity and I thought, not for [...]

25Feb2010 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
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Life in a Small Fishing Village

It’s not that pictureque, actually. Oh, but it can be. I was naive to think it would look like a painting, with colorful masts studding the ocean’s swells, happy moppet children playing with their untoys, and beautific faces in church on every Sunday. Those idyllic images do occur. There have been afternoons when fishermens’ families are meeting boats onshore at sunset, a dynamic tangle [...]

11Feb2010 | Jillian | 2 comments | Continued