1. In which multiple swims in the ocean or a dip in the pool count as a shower.
2. I spent most nights lingering late on the beach like I love to do. Put up a yurt and I'd live on one. I am one with the sand.
3. Last night we sat on the deck under a bowl of stars with the Milky Way visible above the sea. Pure magic.
4. Someday when I'm over it I might be able to talk about all of the sign travesties I've seen over the past week and a half.
5. The unfolding story of the four missing men from Bucks County is like watching Criminal Minds in real life. I feel terrible for the families. So slow, can't link from phone: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/missing-men-bucks-bodies-found-20170713.html?mobi=true
6. Let's check in with Betsy DeVos. She's consulting with men's rights groups that see campus rape as a faux crisis manufactured to demonize men and boys. Righty-oh. Our children are safe with her. In other news, good thing the whole TrumpRussia thing panned out to nothing, right? The denials versus the evidence are insane.
7. A local mom shared her son's medical bills on twitter and received death threats. Politics are never the problem. Not having a soul is always the problem. The divide cannot be closed with those people and I don't want to close it with them. There is no middle ground for me to find with people like that. I'd rather burn it down. That's bridge I don't need to cross.
8. We had a great time in Ocracoke and a great time here this week with the family but we're heading home at some point today. My ass needs to be on a flight to Boston tomorrow afternoon and nine days is my comfortable away from home limit. Too long rambling through beach towns and I don't even recognize myself: chipped nail polish, unaware of the date, face in need of a mask, slowed way down.
10. E-card of the week. Thanks again to our dogsitter Courtney and our shore property manager Michelle! I saw video with my dogs' tails wagging and Michelle is one of the only people I trust to look at something as ruthlessly as me. Our tribe rocks.
