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Added blue sky; removed telephone wires; lowered horizon a bit.

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Daughter comes face-to-face with a loggerhead turtle at an aquarium.

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A month or two before getting Complete Peanuts, I happened upon an old Calvin and Hobbes compilation at a yard sale. Now, Calvin and Hobbes is, and was, truly my all-time favorite strip. The genius of Calvin and Hobbes is not buried in an obscured past, but clearly visible during every phase of the strip’s [...]

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For my recent Cape trip, I brought along a very special book: Complete Peanuts Volume 1 (1950-1952). It was the perfect light reading for a mellow vacation, and it turned out to be a very special treat for me to share these strips with my children. As has been often observed, Peanuts is enjoyable by [...]

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As our final adventure of the Cape Cod trip, we took a whalewatching cruise with Dolphin Fleet of Provincetown. I’ve been whalewatching three times previously, twice from Provincetown and once from Nova Scotia. Each trip offered tantalizing glimpses of the mighty giants, awesome in their wild freedom but always mysterious, distant glimpses. After all, whales [...]

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Day 5: Wednesday Wednesday was one of our most relaxed and enjoyable days. We basically hung out at the pond behind our rental cabin. The kids searched for frogs, we rowed around in a little rowboat, splashed, dug, swam. In the evening we had our first-ever family game of mini-golf. Mini-golf seems almost as ubiquitous [...]

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Writing seems too much like work … here are some happy snappies …

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Cape cod. We’re setting off for “the Cape” for a week. There’s actually a fabulous wealth of activities to do with kids on the Cape, so we have no worry of getting bored. I made reservations for a Monday canoe trip with a naturalist at the Cape Cod National Seashore with Daughter, but otherwise we [...]

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