she's back...
Bet you thought I got lost on the highway somewhere between Bowling Green and San Francisco. Not so. I've just been awfully busy, what with the news of our December arrival. Yes, it's official, it's a boy and he's one serious kicker! Thanks to all of you who have written to ask whatever became of me. What with shopping for maternity clothes, teaching a couple of writing classes, and trying to figure out how to switch this blog from one computer to another (I never did figure that out), I've been one busy girl.
We went to Cabo san Lucas last week. It was about five billion degrees, but a dry heat. As long as we were in the ocean or the pool, it was blissful. We spent a lot of time underneath our umbrella on the sand, drinking smoothies and marveling at the roundness of my previously flat belly. We brought some plastic floaties from home--you know, the kind that take half an hour of hard huffing to blow up, with the funny little pillow at the top--and rode the waves in style. It reminded me of being a kid on the Gulf Coast, spending summer days at the beach with my seahorse floatie. Next to my Howdy Doody wooden puppet, the seahorse floatie was my absolute favorite toy.
The Exercise:
Write about your favorite toy from childhood. Or, make a fiction exercise out of this, and further explore a character in one of your stories by writing about his/her childhood vacations.
12:20:51 PM 
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