Some of my most treasured childhood memories are from summers vacationing down the shore (a.k.a. going to the beach, to you bennies and shoobies) where we'd spend the day jumping thunderous waves, or - especially, those times when the tide was just too rough - my brother and I would tumble around in the foamy breakwater and search along the surf for hours, lost in the hope of finding buried treasure; a cache of gold coins and jewels from a sunken ship, the remains of a great white, or some hideous skeleton yet unknown to modern scientists, would serve as... Read more →