Tag: Summer

Code for summer
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Code for summer

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The Penis Chronicles presents, “Code for summer” What does summer mean for me in the realm of parenting boys? Beyond the “is it time to go back to school again blues” it means dirty, dirty children! I am not entirely sure how they manage it or if it is their unwritten child code for summer,… Continue reading Code for summer

Unsupervised Summer
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Unsupervised Summer

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One of the best adventures we had was also the most dangerous. It was summer and everybody’s parents were gone to work, the trailer park was close to empty. Somehow we managed to find ourselves by the creek and we climbed down the ditch and swung into the big metal culvert where the water from… Continue reading Unsupervised Summer

Quotes for Summer
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Quotes for Summer

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“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” – St. Francis of Assisi "And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." — F. Scott Fitzgerald,… Continue reading Quotes for Summer

Celebrate summer with iced coffee
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Celebrate summer with iced coffee

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The plastic cup in my hand is already sweating. The ice clinks refreshingly as I swirl it around not only to enjoy the sound but to see the movement of the soft brown liquid. I know that first taste will be a milky expresso flavour with hints of vanilla and cold surprise pops of sweet… Continue reading Celebrate summer with iced coffee

Bounce
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Bounce

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Autumn sat alone on her dock. Her back was turned firmly against the drinking going on behind her. She sat statue like without a voice, and she dulled her hearing so that the sounds of them simply rolled toward her but broke against her back like a wave hitting a rock. If she didn’t move… Continue reading Bounce