Laguna Beach storefronts display some of the strangest mannequins I’ve ever seen. I find the resemblance of tourists to these mannequins uncanny. It is difficult to guess the age of many Orange County women from a frontal view – the bee-stung lips, the deer-in-the-headlights expression, tiny pinched noses, not to mention breasts that might double [...]
Posts Tagged ‘swimming’
Mannequins of Laguna Beach
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged eating disorders, Laguna Beach, swimming, T.S. Eliot, travel on August 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cryotherapy and The Nude Swim
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged swimming, women's poetry on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I once read that a famous poet used to immerse herself in freezing cold water as a way of dealing with severe depression. While it’s not pleasant, I can attest to the curative effects of swimming in cold water; the ocean temp has been hovering around 57-59° in Southern California for the last week but I’ve [...]
Seagrasses of Desire
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged science fiction, Solaris, Stanislaw Lem, swimming on August 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been an open water swimmer for more than twenty-five years now. Every year we visit family in Southern California and every year I do a daily open-water swim; lately my eldest daughter and nephew have been joining me. Everyone has a different reaction to the seagrass that sways in the surf only feet below [...]
