I won’t cry over a spilled summer drained empty like the last gulp down the sink I won’t squeeze another beach day out of August mourn the blueberries of July dripped dry I will lay in the low slant of late sunflower light I will soak up the gold of a perpetual setting sun
1. When it comes to the school of life I don’t do a lot of homework but I pay attention in class. 2. My friend Mara says she’s a “one hour photo” sort of person. 3. How come after spending three weeks vacationing on the beach when I finally got home I felt like I [...]
A border collie is droned to sleep by the porch swing creak tin pie plates catch wind in the garden A deer wags its white tail while grazing bruised apples Hummingbirds and mud daubers buzz No one comes down the winding dirt driveway Fruit thumps like footsteps hitting ground Post note: While working at the [...]
~ The following was published in The Floyd Press, July 31, 2008 Summer camp is an all-American tradition for many teens. But what kind of camp teaches kindness as part of its curriculum, or instructs campers to disconnect from their high-tech, high paced lives in order to sit still and listen? At the second annual [...]
1. Magic Marks 2. Land Shark 3. A Bowl of Hole 4. A Strand of Sand Post notes: During my beach days in Hull and Bethany Beach I regularly walked the beach and often came across interesting sand art. The first photo was taken when I was playing Scrabble on the beach with my sister [...]
It’s the eternal sadness from the Great Beyond. Everything’s coming and everything’s gone. ~ Donna the Buffalo I feel like I’ve been around the world in eighty days, although it’s only been twenty-one days that I’ve been vacationing up and down the east coast of Massachusetts, Delaware, and Virginia by plane, car, and bike. Now, [...]
1. In a pinch when I’m at the beach without a notebook, I can write in the margins of a clam box menu using my flip flop sandal for a desk. 2. Compared to the crowds here at Bethany Beach, Delaware, where we’re visiting Joe’s family, and Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts, where I was [...]
A cherry sinking down in a cocktail of sea I’m drunk with the beauty of a sun drenched evening
1. View for Two 2. Catch of the Day 3. Crab Grab 4. Card Sharks 5. Playing for Sand Dollars Post notes: Photos were taken during a visit to Joe’s family at Bethany Beach. A video clip that could be a scene out of Jaws is HERE.
Aka: The Saugus Saga I. One of my brothers is going through a divorce and his finances have been challenged because of it. When I first saw him during my ten day visit with my family in Hull, I remarked at how much weight he had lost. “I call it the ‘I can’t afford to [...]
1. The night after my fisherman brother John brought lobsters home and I video-taped them, he said, “Colleen, I have something else for you to take pictures of” and then he spread THESE out on the table. 2. I guess I’m a full-time beach bum now, at least for the rest of August. After spending [...]
My hometown of Hull, Massachusetts, is lucky that Mark Wahlberg’s brother Paul chose it as the location for his restaurant, “Bridgeman’s.” And I was lucky to have had the occasion to eat there twice during the ten days I was visiting my family. The first occasion was a birthday dinner party for my sister Tricia’s [...]
1. The Yin Yang of Flip Flops 2. Don’t Drink and Drive 3. Achoo and God Bless You 4. Time to Catch a Ride Video: Chasing Sandpipers on Nantasket Beach HERE.
What can top a Boston Swan Boat Ride? How about an all you can eat Lobster dinner? This one was caught and is being cooked by my fisherman brother Johnny. John thinks the green tomalley (liver) is the best part. “What are these little red things? Are they eggs? I thought caviar was black,” I [...]
In this day of theme parks with rides like the Tower of Terror and Disney mouse and duck characters posing for photo-ops, I’m relieved there are still parks where real ducks can be fed and where you can ride around a weeping willow lined lagoon on a peddle boat with a giant swan on it. [...]
1. You know you’re having a hometown vacation when you’re riding your mother’s neighbor’s bike and someone stops you on the street to ask where the library is and you actually know. 2. I get such a boost from my sunset walks at the ocean that when I get ready to take one I tell [...]
1. You take time to stop and smell the beach roses. 2. You have a red bike for chasing the sunset from the ocean to the bay. 3. You spend time with your mother and sisters. 4. And your other sister who is missing from the above picture and who wears an H on her [...]
One is a General in the Marines, another is a massage therapist. Two are hairdressers and about four are Vietnam Vets. There is a salesman, a store owner, and a professional dancer who came all the way from Spain. The thing I like most about the Hull High Class of ‘68 is that most of [...]
