Summer fun with BA, Julia, Kiernan and Sean
what was your favorite back to school supply?
What was your best favorite summer song and or movie?
What do you have planned the rest of this summer
Kiernan
Every year for summer vacation, my parents would take me to Atlantic City, New Jersey for two weeks. This was way back before the casinos, mind you, when it was nothing but sand, ocean, and boardwalk. We'd roast on the hot sand every day, then walk the boardwalk at night. I'd especially like taking rides in the rolling carts - which were sort of like oversized wicker strollers for adults, pushed up and down the boardwalk by attendants.
Notebooks. Even today, there's something magical for me in a clean, unused notebook. I really liked the five subject, spiral bound ones, although in grade school we were only allowed to have those black-and-white marbled ones. Then again, I had to use cartridge pens in grade school because the nuns thought ball point pens were the work of the devil. At least, that's the only reason I can think why they forced us to use those messy cartridge ink pens.
My favorite summer songs are the surfer songs from the sixties. Nothing screams summer to me like listening to the Beach Boys or Jan and Dean.
In August I'm flying to San Francisco to see my son. We'll do Alcatraz again, Fisherman's Wharf, Muir Woods, Chinatown, and the Westchester House.
B.a. Tortuga
1. I hated not being at school, to be honest.
2. Crayons
3. Grease
4. B.a. 4. Jodi Payne and family are coming for a week.
