One Morning In Maine

I just got back from a lovely few days with my family in an A-frame house on a lake in Maine. I've always had the impression, from driving through Maine on my way to Nova Scotia, that it was all ugly fields and little rest stop buildings made out of lincoln logs, but this spot was really gorgeous. We were tucked back behind a campground, completely secluded from the rest of the vacationers, and just a few minutes drive from the ocean. It was only a few days but it included some of my old favorite things, as well as a few new favorites:

-Skinny dipping with my sisters late one night in delicious secrecy

-Entire family dance parties

-Lots of photographs

-Around-the-world ping-pong

-The ocean

-A photo shoot on a rocky shore (while a real photo shoot went on not too far away)

-A canoe on a lake

-Endless laughter and inside jokes

-Reading the Harry Potter series aloud to my little sisters, and eventually my whole family

The Women's Crusade

It's long, but this piece by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn is fabulous. It's part of a longer book entitled Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide that I really want to read.

Claire

Today...

...One of Regina's beautiful new songs is playing in my head.