We understand logistics, and lifeguards who need to leave for college, and musicians who are also teachers that have to prepare their classrooms for the start of the school year, and yoga instructors with businesses to run, but, man oh man, do we hate to say good-bye to summer. Especially with a whole month to [...]
We are, we agreed last night as we sat munching grilled burgers in the shadow of a park that had hosted us all weekend, lucky ducks. In one weekend we experienced nearly all of the summer activities we’d been dreaming about since last fall. We swam every day in the public pool across the street [...]
It’s going to be especially hard to say good-bye to our old friend when the Erb Park Pool closes this weekend, because it has been especially good to us this year. Nearly every evening we have headed across the street for a little post-dinner swim and, nearly every evening we have walked home so very [...]
The public outdoor pools closed for the year yesterday in our area and, with that sad and impossibly swift seasonal ending, came the realization that my husband Vince and I had not gone down the water slide across the street from our house even one time this summer. Now, you might point out that our [...]
The Erb Park Pool opens today and I can't wait. I bought our pool passes months ago, on one of those sleety Midwest afternoons that makes you wonder if summer planned to skip us this year. She took her good, sweet time but summer finally made it and it was fun to watch her unpack [...]