Comments on: Summer on the Coast of Maine, Doggy-Style

By: Annie Too

Annie Too — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:42:09 +0000

Ok, I am now seething in jealousy!! The Arizona heat has taken every ounce of liquid in my body… thank you Ann for brining a little bit of the Maine beach into my dry, hot life… now, If I could find a bit of sand to put my toes in.

By: Derrick Daye

Derrick Daye — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:02:39 +0000

Ann,

Nicely said. I’ll be heading back to Boothbay shortly…nothing like Maine!

Derrick

By: David Reich

David Reich — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:15:32 +0000

I’ll be on the beach in Maine in 2 weeks, when we go up near Brunswick (25 miles past Portland) to spend a week near our daughter and grandson.

Our pooch Loki will be there. He’s a black lab mix, so I don’t have to tell you how much he loves the beach. And our daughter’s dog Delia is a big black curly-haired dog — could have been the pup in your story, except when you mentioned the owner was a large woman, I knew it wasn’t my daughter, who is tall and thin.

Delia’s getting a bit older now — she’s 9. She sleeps late and when on a walk, just lays down flat when she’s had enough walking. But get her near the ocean and she’s a young pup swimming non-stop as she chases sticks and balls.

Can’t wait.

By: Ann Handley

Ann Handley — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:24:24 +0000

Thanks for the generous encouragement, all. A book might be out of my league at this point.. I’m lucky if I can manage to post to this blog once a week, keep my job, walk the dogs, raise a few kids *and* clean my oven! ; )

@Lara — Interesting idea there. Thanks.

@Jim — I think I inadvertently & unintentionally foreshadowed something there… in the 2.0 version of this story (if there ever is one…) I’ll clean that up. The doggie romp happened so quickly that it was well over by the time they emerged onto the sand.. which affirmed for me that everyone does indeed live out their own little drama mostly unaware…

By: Alan Wolk

Alan Wolk — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:59:09 +0000

Was waiting till I was on vacation to respond.

I love how you play the observer in so many of your blog posts, wondering about what some total strangers are up to, creating backstories for them, speculating on how they came to be in the situation they are now.

It’s great stuff, and you’ve got a keen ear for it.

By: Jenny, Crash Test Mommy

Jenny, Crash Test Mommy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:28:11 +0000

I could read you all day, Ann.
Felt like I was there watching with you.

By: Lisa Mac

Lisa Mac — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:44:47 +0000

HA!! I couldn’t get beyond, “It bursts through the dune grass behind me and hits the sand, galloping with its head high and plumed tail aloft.”

The sight of a pup all happy and free like that is the greatest thing in the world. Unless of course the pup is yours!

oxox

By: Terri in Tokyo

Terri in Tokyo — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:27:30 +0000

and when you write that novel (or that book of essays), I will buy them as gifts for my dearest friends, every one!

By: Elaine Fogel

Elaine Fogel — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:09:06 +0000

Ann, it’s time to start thinking about authoring a novel. It’s in you.

By: Jim Sutton

Jim Sutton — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:02:05 +0000

Ann – Great writing and the sound and smell of the surf makes me long to be sitting on the beach. Why did I find myself worrying about the two girls, bobbing “unaware” of the scene on the sand? Is it my fear of unknown dogs and the potential they have to cause a little havoc? It’s quite a potent sub-text to the little concern about the password. Jim