Seven Tears Into the Sea (2003)
“Do I eat hamburgers? Yes. Would I look into a cow’s trusting brown eyes and aim a gun between them? No way.
Call me hypocritical, but there it is. Except for clams.
Don’t discuss their nervous systems or consciousness with me, because I don’t want to know.
After shaking the nap cobwebs from my brain, I got dressed. With that aching thigh and tender ankle, my jeans were a challenge, but I got them on, along with the first T-shirt I touched. Because the beach cools off fast after sundown, I tied ...my hooded red sweatshirt around my waist.
I walked to the beach wearing a backpack loaded with matches, a pocket knife, a copper-bottomed saucepan, a footed rack to hold the pan above the fire, a little metal dish, and a cube of butter.
This was one beach treat I remembered how to make. Since Mom loved fresh clams as much as I did, I learned to prepare them by watching her during our shoreline cookouts when I was a kid, and more recently, when we’d driven to beaches closer to Valencia.
Striding away from Cook’s Cottage I had one twinge in my thigh and another of loneliness when Gumbo mewed from an upstairs window.MoreLess
Call me hypocritical, but there it is. Except for clams.
Don’t discuss their nervous systems or consciousness with me, because I don’t want to know.
After shaking the nap cobwebs from my brain, I got dressed. With that aching thigh and tender ankle, my jeans were a challenge, but I got them on, along with the first T-shirt I touched. Because the beach cools off fast after sundown, I tied ...my hooded red sweatshirt around my waist.
I walked to the beach wearing a backpack loaded with matches, a pocket knife, a copper-bottomed saucepan, a footed rack to hold the pan above the fire, a little metal dish, and a cube of butter.
This was one beach treat I remembered how to make. Since Mom loved fresh clams as much as I did, I learned to prepare them by watching her during our shoreline cookouts when I was a kid, and more recently, when we’d driven to beaches closer to Valencia.
Striding away from Cook’s Cottage I had one twinge in my thigh and another of loneliness when Gumbo mewed from an upstairs window.MoreLess
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