The Indignity of Using an Umbrella in the Sun

The Indignity of Using an Umbrella in the Sun

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but it’s been hot lately. Like, obscenely hot.

I’m a Florida native so heat and humidity are as natural to me as a lizard crawling across my toes or a frog hanging out on the wall of my kids’ bedroom, but this year the heat has just been… different.

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Sometimes Parenting is a Train Wreck

Sometimes Parenting is a Train Wreck

We took a short ride on the city train yesterday just to have something to do on one of our last days of summer vacation.

What I didn’t bargain for was that after we messed around the park and shops near where we got off the train, when we returned to the train station, the attendant told us that there had been an accident and the trains were shut down until further notice.

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