Flotsam Friday: What You’ll Carry Forward
By the end of the walk, you always carry something forward. Flotsam Friday is about choosing what’s worth the weight as January comes to a close.
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Flotsam Friday: What’s Changing Shape
Some things don’t leave – they change. Flotsam Friday is about noticing what’s becoming softer, lighter, or newly formed with time.
Dive in to the post →Flotsam Friday: What You’re Ready to Let Drift Away
Some things don’t need to be carried forward. Flotsam Friday is about loosening your grip and trusting the tide to take what’s finished.
Dive in to the post →Flotsam Friday: What Floats Into a New Year
The beach is honest after a storm. Not everything needs to be carried forward. Flotsam Friday is about noticing what still floats.
Dive in to the post →Beach Movie Monday: Bikini Beach (1964)
Bikini Beach (1964) is a sun-drenched comedy with a surprisingly sharp message: people are always trying to put you in a box – and you don’t have to stay there.
Dive in to the post →Flotsam Friday: Ten Years After Paris – What Does the Shore Think?
A decade after the Paris Agreement, the Shore has her own opinion about how we’re doing – and beach lovers might be the ones who need to lead the way. A reflective Flotsam Friday on love, climate, and our responsibility to the coast.
Dive in to the post →Flotsam Friday: The First Beach I Ever Met
From a cold, rocky Alaskan shoreline in a winter coat to the sun-soaked chaos of Myrtle Beach, this Flotsam Friday traces the surprising contrast between my first two beaches – and invites you to share the story of yours.
Dive in to the post →What the Sea Left Behind
When the last umbrellas close and the gulls reclaim the boardwalk, the beach exhales. What’s left behind isn’t just sea glass and shells – it’s memory. Footprints that once hurried toward the waves have been washed smooth, and the air hums with a quieter kind of music. There’s a peace to the off-season that summer … Read more
Dive in to the post →Wacky Wednesday: The Mall Mermaid
You can tell she’s one of us – a summer soul trapped in November.The beach may be closed, but she’s found the next best thing: climate-controlled tides and an endless food court horizon. Meet our Mall Mermaid. In July, she’s probably posted up on a towel, earbuds in, fries in hand, and that same patient, … Read more
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