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.
When the tail is in the closet, the shirt has to say it for you. The Comfort Colors 1717 is a heavyweight 6.1 oz tee cut from 100% ring-spun cotton grown in the USA, garment-dyed and soft-washed so it already feels like a tide-worn favorite on the first wear (and preshrunk, so the fit holds from June to the cold-water months). It is the tee for the long business day that ends at the lake, and for the landlocked believer whose nearest ocean is a screensaver. Soft on the skin, sovereign in the room. Mermaid Dayz prints it for the woman who has a mersona and a mortgage.