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Jana Remy

  • Writing
    • Disability
    • Making History
    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
    • Canoeing
    • Creative Nonfiction & Essays
    • Feminism
    • Bibliographies
      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
    • Social Media
      • Mentions/Links
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June 30, 2006

family

a perfect storm

Went to the beach again after dinner tonite. Unlike yesterday, the water was warm and the waves gentle. We saw numerous dolphins playing in the surf, their backs dark and glossy in the evening light. We found an area with good shells and several chunks of jellyfishes (a first for me–I’ve only seen them in aquariums before).

I was telling Chris that I planned to stay out at the beach until dark tonite, it was just about then that we started seeing the lightning on the horizon. Then a surfer dropped by our group–with all of our young kids–and warned us that a storm was coming in fast and we’d best head back now.

Someone looked at me, standing knee-deep in the water on two metal crutches and suggested that sticking around wasn’t a good idea. So we headed out right then. By the time we’d walked the few short blocks to the beachouse the rain had started. Then, moments later, we gathered on the top floor of the house–with its broad windows–and turned off all the house lights so we could watch the lightning dance around us. Mom popped popcorn and the ‘movie’ was as thrilling as anything on the big screen.

June 30, 2006
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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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