Remember (Walking in the Sand)
Prompted By Beaches
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Memories of three beach trips that I hadn't thought about for years triggered by a Retrospect prompt.
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Skinny Dipping
Prompted By Beaches
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Skinny Dipping For several summers in our early, married-without-children years we rented a beach house in the Hamptons with our good friends J and K. After a few years our friends – serious fishermen by then – opted for the mountains instead and bought a house near a trout stream. (See Catskill Weekend) And…
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Jones Beach, Beach 4
Prompted By Beaches
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I haven’t written here for a long time, but I couldn’t resist penning my memories of trips to Jones Beach in the 1950s. Excitement mounted when mom informed me and my little brother that we were going to the beach. We ran around in circles, chasing each other and laughing, til Dad yelled at us…
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Catching the Waves
Prompted By Beaches
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"It's really a blast," I wrote in my travel diary. That was high praise in 1966.
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Lest We Forget
Prompted By Beaches
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2024 is the 80th anniversary of D-day, the joint Allied invasion on the beaches of Normandy to liberate France from the Nazis.
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Surprise Party
Prompted By Surprises
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Surprise Party When her husband Andrew was turning 40, my friend Simi decided to throw him a surprise party in their apartment, and she asked for my help. We were both stay-at-home moms then with plenty of free time on our hands for surprise party planning. In fact for weeks before the party we must…
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