The Law of Reversed Effort
When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink. But when you try to sink, you float. Alan Watts
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I learned a lot of things at home this summer, but the most important things were these: I am excellent at Wii Golf. Just like a good little Birdie. Or perhaps an Eagle. Former state prisons make...
View ArticlePerfect
In case you didn’t know, the perfect day includes: A latte your father made with homefries your mother made. Salty hair and sandy toes. Small ones collecting crabs and shells in the tidepools. A...
View ArticleSpoiled
Sometimes you really don’t know what you have had until it’s 6800 miles and 13 time zones away. Thanks to jet lag, I’ve been wide awake at 5:30 or 6 am every morning since I’ve been home. The weather...
View ArticleBookworm
Madelyne is my little bookworm. It is a quality I admire in an individual, especially a seven-year-old. She was prodded repeatedly to “put down the book and join the conversation,” but she ignored all...
View ArticleFriday Night Delights
For me, summer doesn’t begin until that first fried clam plate. And if I happen to be landlocked in a city or a desert for the summer, or some inferior semi-coastal place that thinks clam strips pass...
View ArticleThe Living is Easy
Perhaps a bit too easy. These are days that roll into one another and back out again, just like the tide. A weekend begins as a blank slate, with no fixed plans, yet by Sunday evening ends with pink...
View ArticleWingaersheek
We’ve been having fantastic beach weather this summer on the North Shore, and it’s been the kind with piercing blue skies. My favorite time of day to hit the beach is late in the afternoon, when most...
View ArticleWellfleet
In the late 1950s, my grandparents began a yearly tradition of renting a small cottage on the Cape Cod National Seashore, escaping New Jersey’s heavy summer humidity for a few weeks on the open...
View ArticleWhen Ferry Came to Town
I returned to Seoul two weeks ago, but my mind is still planted firmly in Massachusetts. That’s why it was a little bit like Christmas morning to pick up my latest batch of film from the lab, which...
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