When the project began, some homeowners complained that the dune would block their view of the water — as was certainly the case in my ground-floor room at the Drifting Sands Oceanfront Motel, in Ship Bottom.
Initially "the comet … was like the [dot] that I was used to in my ground-based images," she says.
"I got booed at the Gabba [in a one-day game] but I never remember being booed in my home ground, but I remember that fondly," Clarke joked.
This was in our city, in my football ground, 96 people had died before our eyes.
I stood my ground in the unmasked minority.
Or I can call them on it, and then I'm Larry David, standing my ground in a losing battle for a lost cause.
— that I found myself needing to paint my toenails and take bubble baths between chapters, just to hold my ground in the face of such an onslaught of testosterone.
Noticing these employees tended to be soft-spoken and acquiescent, I resolved to stand my ground in my new role.
"I don't want it in my fishing grounds," said Mr. Martinson, 40, who docks his 74-foot boat, Libra, here at Yaquina Bay, about 90 miles southwest of Portland.
When I decided to trade in my coffee grounds for tea leaves, I found the magical elixir for relieving mild stress and anxiety: lavender tea.
