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I’ll never forget the first time I saw one of these duck-like cars in France in the late 80s. I thought it was a VW Beetle gone very, very wrong. Turns out that the two cars were developed around the same time, just before WWII broke out. I learned this recently while researching a short non-fiction piece I’m writing …

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Our jaunt to Canterbury was not entirely bloodless.

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I thought this was a pretty dramatic way to enshrine the spot where the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Beckett, was murdered in 1170. Other less dramatic tales from our trip to Canterbury to come.

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We had a quiet, rainy Saturday here, which we welcomed as each of us had indoor things we wanted to do: AC worked on the new business he is setting up; I did some writing and research; Sam trashed the living room. It was all good. At one point I happened to look up and out the window and saw a giant red gnome head …

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That’s what I imagined this woman was saying to her companion as she waded into the water. The temperature outside was in the mid-50s and it was raining pretty steadily. (Sam and I were bundled up in our rain gear and we were freezing.) Not only did this bather make it all the way in, but her companion joined her …

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Sam was delighted to discover a rocket ship at the library today. We watched the night sky tonight for signs of the Perseid meteor showers, but it’s just too cloudy over the island tonight.

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Or, “Holding Onto Summer For As Long As We Can.”

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Sam and Anjeli at the park post gymnastics class… a few minutes before the sideways rain soaked us.

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