When it’s a beautiful day and I get to spend a few hours on the deck, on the chaise lounge, under the umbrella, it feels perfect. I live across the street from a lake and in the summer, it’s like a vacation spot. It actually used to be a vacation spot until the building of the interstate which is about ten minutes away. It’s truly idyllic in the summer, and I love to be on the deck with a book or magazine, some Diet Coke, and the cats get to hang out, too.
When I go somewhere and see some beautiful nature, it’s not every day that it happens but it really sustains me. Last year we went to Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota and I have fond memories of it. This year, we went to Alaska. Usually in the summer, we would go to Cape Cod and even though we’re more familiar with it there, it’s beautiful and wonderful.
NY Times has a new game, “Connections.” It takes about five minutes and a new one comes out every day at midnight. They offer sixteen words and you put them in four groups of four, via their connections which can be anything from “men named Tony” to something more obscure or less obscure. It’s fun and simple and when I get it right, it makes me happy.