A request

If you would, please do the following (preferably in the next week or two):

Read this:

Watch this:

Then ask all the people you know to do the same. It is of utmost importance for our country. I'm not being an alarmist about this. If you read the book, it's all right there. He's not hiding anything. We are simply too busy (or too lazy) to educate ourselves.

One week....

I am just sitting here thinking, in one week, we will be at the beach. Finally. Toes in the sand. Sound of the the waves. Sun on my skin.

Yes, we were in Erie last year. I don't count that. It's a lake, after all.

I really, truly need the Atlantic right now. Last time we were there we looked like this

Uh, yeah. Waaaayyyy overdue.