Her tree went up the first week of December with a starfish on top, and the ornaments were collected one low tide at a time. The carols are the usual ones. The table is not. Nobody in that house has ever once wished for a white Christmas.
Mari has been to this dinner. She describes the chowder in a tone normally reserved for people she is in love with.
If your friend in the beach town already has her holiday planned around the tide chart, this is her December. The Tide Pool keeps Christmas its own way, and hers is the invitation everyone is hoping lands.
Pods swim together, eat together, and show up at each other's birthdays with wet hair, and this is the shirt you buy in two. The Comfort Colors 6014 is a heavyweight 6.1 oz long sleeve in 100% USA-grown ring-spun cotton, garment-dyed for that faded, sea-worn color that looks like it has already been on a few tides. A relaxed unisex cut and rib cuffs keep it cozy for the first cold lake walk of the year (the one nobody else wanted to take). It gets softer every wash, which is more than the ocean promises. Mermaid Dayz made it for the one who holds your tow-float and your secrets.