I live in the tiny City by the Sea that many of you, some across the oceans, have read about here. Yes, Long Beach, NY is small, about 36 thousand salty souls. […]
Together, and Splashing It
Passions, Private and Profane
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
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
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
“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
“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 […]
A Sundae Kind of Love
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 […]
Neptune Rising
“And here was Neptune, god of the sea…” I went to the shore one recent day, an offshore storm kept strollers at bay. Surfers will ride a stormy sea. But I saw […]
The Innocents
“Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” (Agnes Sligh Turnbull) Do you like poems? There are some I don’t like, too much struggle. Many evoke awe, but we have to […]
Simian By The Sea
Diving for protein, Wilson’s Storm Petrels*… …while a nearby gull eyed an ape’s bag of pretzels. One pulled from the surf a tasty prize… …then a decision formed behind yellow eyes: Tearing […]
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