Coping Mechanisms Size:Small (8 x 8 in) "Small Things Like These" by

"Small Things Like These" by the Irish author Claire Keegan

This place isn't technically a beach

I recounted a passage I'd once read

She casually mentioned the word "baseball" to me on a phone call and things quickly fell into place from there

Coping Mechanisms Size:Small (8 x 8 in) "Small Things Like These" byOver a period of about two years, I visited the same plot of lakefront every Sunday and took long, slow walks along its shoreline. This place isn't technically a beach, because nobody goes there for recreation or swimming or sunbathing. It's a bit of a work in progress, having once been the site of an industrial steel mill operation that's slowly (and mostly unsuccessfully) being transformed into a natural area. In spite of that unappealing