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Thursday, July 17, 2008

These are the dog days of summer when you regret failing to join a pool or kick yourself, if you had the energy for such rigorous activity, for deciding to backload summer vacations in August.

All you think about is water.

Large, cool bodies of water.

And why you don't know more people with pools. Or access to pools.

Or lakes.

Or oceans.

And how the tiny lap pool in the basement of the gym just isn't going to do it.

Nor is a tub of Bassett's butterscotch vanilla ice cream.

Though it can't hurt.

 

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This week Karen Heller is live-blogging the Republican convention in true blogger style - at home, surfing the Web and watching TV. She's covered five other conventions. Three were Republican, two were Democratic. Read all of Populist here.

Karen Heller has interviewed Philip Roth and Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent time with Pink and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the celebrated and the exemplary unsung. She's covered Miss America and political conventions. She's been a provocative voice at The Inquirer for nearly 20 years, garnering awards for criticism, feature writing and investigative reporting, and was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.