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William Morrow
(2017-04-04)
400 pages
ISBN: 978-0062499950

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The Return

September 17, 2010 by Ellen Herrick

It rained today as Emma and I walked to school.  It had started in the night, great gusts of wind and rain hammering at the windows in my bedroom under the eaves.  Emma, as used to be the case when David traveled more, slept with me.  It had been months since she’d joined me.  Her long legs migrated to my side of the mattress and her heat woke me before the rain.  Only a few inches shorter than I am, Emma had suddenly taken over not just my bed but my body, in a way.  She sprawled, jack-knifed, splayed and scrambled in her dreams until I had to shove her away.  I lay in the dark listening to the storm pass through Cambridge and (after the obligatory dead of night stumble to the bathroom) thought about what I’d do the next day if the rain continued.

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Filed Under: America, family, homesick, moving Tagged With: America, homesick, moving

Almost Home

July 30, 2010 by Ellen Herrick

I am slowly coming home.  Every time my toes curl into the hot sand at the beach, my fingers pull at a weed in the garden or pluck the clothes pegs from the clean laundry snapping on the line I feel another little root take hold.  We have a whole summer to find our way back, a soft landing a friend called it, a place that already feels safe and beautiful and right to us all.  We are very lucky.

Still, September is only a month away and already, the sun rises later, the moon looks more golden, dahlias unfurling faster and faster, hydrangeas fading.  It is time to think beyond the Cape.

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Filed Under: America, Cape Cod, flowers Tagged With: America, flowers, homesick, London

Independence Day

July 4, 2010 by Ellen Herrick

I am an early riser and by early I mean shortly after four am.  I try to have a lie in, I really do.  Don’t hate me because I am wildly productive.  I’m not.  Occasionally in those pre- or just post-dawn hours I get some stuff done.  This morning for instance I folded laundry, made a list of editors that my ms. might appeal to, drank three cups of coffee (my teeth are now itching), went down to the beach to read awhile and then went to the gym.  There, I fiddle-faddled around on one kind of machine or another for about 45 minutes before I lost interest in everything from my maximum heart rate to the New York Times Book Review podcast (who cares that a professor from Yale has written about how our reactions to things change depending on what we are told those things are–science of the obvious to me but then I don’t have a PhD.)  At any rate, for every morning I use my time wisely, there are the ones where I paddle the internet (I scroll too slowly to call it surfing) checking on Lindsay Lohan’s SCRAM anklet, wondering what will happen to Larry King now that he isn’t CNN’s resident crypt keeper or saving dozens of recipes for complicated dishes I may or may not attempt.

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Filed Under: America, Cape Cod Tagged With: America, Cape Cod, free floating anxiety, July 4th

Fin

June 29, 2010 by Ellen Herrick

It is right and proper that our last days in London are straight out of some 19th century novel of manners (and summertime).  The sky is high and blue, the privet blossoms so fragrant the roses are fighting for attention.  Every flower is blooming, the boxwood is such a deep green it is nearly blue and the hollyhocks (hollyhocks, in a city!) are waving like fly fishing poles in the breeze.

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Filed Under: Summer Tagged With: America, goodbye, homesick, London

The End

June 21, 2010 by Ellen Herrick

This begins the first of the lasts for us in London.  We will leave London next Tuesday, our 25th wedding anniversary–and what a festive way to spend it, cramming the last bits and bobs into our suitcases, struggling through security where all the metal bolts and pulleys in my back will necessitate yet a another officer-escorted visit to the “cubby of revelation,” another display of much scar-age and X-rays.  Why, I can’t think of a more fitting way to depart.  Yes, I can but apparently the Concorde has been retired and Prince Charles has not yet recovered from our last meeting so he’ll skip the send off.

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Filed Under: England, homesick, London Tagged With: America, England, London, moving

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