{"id":897,"date":"2007-06-14T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2007\/06\/summertime-memories\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T06:49:00","slug":"summertime-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/summertime-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Real Simple<\/span> is a magazine that has grown on me. I used to call it “Real Nudgy,” but then my sister-in-law, who is Ned’s twin, and is someone I feel very close to even though I don’t see her much, got me a subscription. This made me give the mag a second look. It’s kind of hypnotic with its clean, glossy layouts; the photo spreads are so alluring that they make even housecleaning tips or office organizing look like something you kind of want to do.<\/p>\n

They have a feature this month which asks, “What is your favorite summertime memory?” Readers submitted single paragraph descriptions of a moment in summer that was wonderful or a summertime practice they have loved, using powerful and sensory-oriented phrases, like “the smell of the rain when it feel on the pavement on a hot summer’s day,” or “riding my Schwinn bike, with floral banana seat, or course, in the 98-degree Iowa heat with a Popsicle melting so fast it dripped off my elbows.”<\/p>\n

This delighted me. I began to think about some of my favorite summertime memories, childhood and adulthood. Here’s what I came up with:<\/p>\n

Childhood
Picking blackberries at Montauk Point, Long Island, with my sister, standing on a soft, narrow dune path filled with pale yellow-green pointy beach grasses. The ocean was just over the rise, so you could see it here and there through the grass (I was very small, probably six or seven.). The berries were tart and the seeds stuck in your teeth and filled your nose with their sharp, tangy aroma.<\/p>\n

Teenage
Waiting for my date to arrive for the Junior prom (I was a sophomore). He was a very nice young man with wavy black hair and a wide smile and his brother’s Astin sports car. I had the perfect dress: a pale pink Gunne Saxe dress<\/a> (this one is satin, mine was cotton) with tiny flowers scattered across it. I went to the garden and picked a peony to put in my hair (very long, mid-back, wavy-curly dark brown) and an ant crawled out onto my face! <\/p>\n

That’s all for now…off on a field trip with Benj to the beach, of all things (it is 60 degrees and cloudy).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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