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What marks your summer?
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What marks your summer?

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What are 5 words you would use to describe your summer or summers? Why? Here are 5 words with reasoning that I would use to mark my summers: 1. Adventure: As a child summer was something that was often marked by a group of different friends then the ones I went to school with. So… Continue reading What marks your summer?

A refreshing end
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A refreshing end

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Thunk, thunk, thunk, thunk. My footfalls are steady and patterned. I feel happy that I have found a pace that will sustain me through this run. The heat of the sun is grueling. I keep pushing forward with 1 foot in front of the other, but I am conscious of the fact that there is… Continue reading A refreshing end

Coffee and Summer Heat
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Coffee and Summer Heat

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Some people won’t drink a hot coffee on a hot summer day. I am not one of those people. A hot coffee works for me any day: the rich smell, the bitter taste and a little bit of heat. How about you? If we were having coffee I would ask you if prefer iced or… Continue reading Coffee and Summer Heat

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
Writing

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