Communication breakdown, or, One if by land, two if by sea. It seems with all of our communication options, one must still be wary of everyone's personal limitations...
- my answering machine at home is full and I don't know how to deal with it remotely
- a friend has limited minutes so won't call or text, he just emails
- a friend has no room in her cell phone message box, then she had security issues while trying to access AOL and on a cruise entered a foreign country where she REALLY had trouble accessing it.
- my sister lost her cell phone around three weeks ago. There is a strange man on her answering machine at home and she does not seem to get the messages I leave her. Her boyfriend has to wait for the iPhone 5 to come so he can give her HIS phone
- Another friend has THAT SAME STRANGE MAN on her answering machine and she NEVER answers the phone. She always has to call you back.

My favorite activity is inactivity. I was just thinking this as I was laying on the beach around 26th street in Ocean City. I was taking a little "vitamin D" bath and imagining Grace Kelly frolicking on that beach (I was right near her house). I took a picture of her house.

Life always seems to "come around". I visited Grace Kelly once in the royal palace in Monaco. I was traveling with some friends during a junior year abroad experience in Paris. My girlfriend had a thing for Princess Grace and had written to ask for an audience. She granted it. She had a cold that day but was gracious with us and talked about her volunteer activities. We also talked about our Phildelphia/Jersey shore connections. I remember looking out the window and seeing the royal children coming home from school. Then, her youngest sister, Liz, ended up living at The Quadrangle, in Haverford, Pa, where my mother was incarcerated (I mean lived) for 15 years.