Celebrate the end of summer 2024 with reflections on fatherhood and Jersey Shore memories, plus upcoming events and a farewell to a local legend.
The term “never-ending summer” never sat right with me, cause it’s never long enough. Memorial Day was a heartbeat ago and here we are on the closing credits of summer 2024.
One year, they’re squeezing my hand in terror on a dark ride and suddenly there are eye rolls, the hint of a mustache, and an outstretched palm demanding $20. Life has a funny way of working out, though, and instead of kicking sand on the beach, alone, or fishing for seaweed with my dad, I went ahead and had another kid in my mid-40s.
My daughter turned 3 this summer — old enough and tall enough for some real rides — and past experience, I’ve got another decade of ice cream, roller coasters, and sand castles to keep me young, unless I break a hip or something. Even better, those kids that ditched me a few years are now mostly adults, and they’ve come around so I have a bevy of built-in sand diggers, stroller pushers, and substitutes for certain rides that get me sick.
And while I’m here and have the space to say it, I’d like to bid a personal farewell to Jack Morey, of Morey’s Piers,. I interviewed Jack a dozen or so times over the years, spent a lifetime on his piers, and even wound up chatting with him, personally, when I’d see him in the waterparks there. Jack’s thoughtfulness and creativity always stuck with me.
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