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American Grit

By leebythesea11 on January 1, 2022 • ( 18 Comments )

I didn’t yet know the hardened grit of America. We were in World War II—and I was only five years old. I only knew of playing with toy cars in the sand, […]

Christmas, On the Sea of Love

By leebythesea11 on December 20, 2021 • ( 3 Comments )

It was the same deep bark, a big-dog bark that I heard the last time I was here. I knew I looked eccentric, my hair wild, my eyes, red. I was on […]

Passions, Private and Profane

By leebythesea11 on December 15, 2021 • ( 21 Comments )

The beach of Long Beach is bordered by dunes, a boardwalk, and a palisade of high rises. Just over those high rises is Broadway, a busy thoroughfare that everyone in Long Beach […]

It’s Refreshing

By leebythesea11 on September 10, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

Try it. You’ll like it. My brother, Rod, lives in assisted living. Due to the highly contagious Delta variant, we don’t go to lunch as often as we had, but coffee is […]

Of Lifeguards and Life

By leebythesea11 on August 22, 2021 • ( 11 Comments )

I had to put my camera down. I sat in my sand chair watching the young family in the surf, a vignette of laughter in white spray. I want to capture such […]

This is Why I hate People

By leebythesea11 on July 9, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

“You don’t need to be the tide to rise and fall, you don’t have to be a wave to touch the shore; just be a little sand-grain and feel them all”—Munia Khan […]

Soul to the Sea

By leebythesea11 on June 18, 2021 • ( 21 Comments )

“Get your black ass into the studio.” It was the final shot across Kurt’s bow. “Ships…pass in the night…so on the ocean of life, we pass and speak to one another, only […]

Aren’t We Better Than This?

By leebythesea11 on April 28, 2021 • ( 2 Comments )

She paints love on the walls in the City By The Sea. Juliet paints in black on white for our troubled blue planet. I wrote a bit about Juliet in 2019 when […]

Oh Yeah, You Blend

By leebythesea11 on March 31, 2021 • ( 14 Comments )

From “My Cousin, Vinny”: “You stick out like a sore thumb around here.” “Me? What about you?” “I fit in better than you, a least I’m wearing cowboy boots.” “Oh yeah, you […]

A Sundae Kind of Love

By leebythesea11 on February 18, 2021 • ( 7 Comments )

It was a vanilla sundae kind of a day. It snowed that Sunday; I swam the day before, and I don’t like to do the same exercise for consecutive days, so I […]

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