Having a Little Tension With Your Family is Sometimes Part of a Vacation

“Does your heart have some sort of emotional attachment to this rug because I’d just as well get rid of it,” the woman in the pop-up camper asks the man.   They’re a couple.   Everywhere he walks, he walks slowly with his flip-flops dragging across the asphalt, the pine needles, the dirt. He wears a giant rainbow shirt.   She wears fleece and jeans. … Continue reading Having a Little Tension With Your Family is Sometimes Part of a Vacation

Campground Lady Where Friendly People Met

She had stayed at our camper site for nine years, not continuously, but for a couple weeks at a time each summer while her husband came to Maine to abandon the Alabama summer heat. She’d still had to stay home and work those summers, visiting him twice each season. They thought they’d spend a lot more time here soon. But this year, she walks across … Continue reading Campground Lady Where Friendly People Met