Joni Evans | 07/04/2008 12:00 am
One Year Ago Today: I'm As Relaxed As I'm Going to Get
In response to: Here's a look back at how some of us spent July 4th, 2007, before the launch of wowOwow ...
I have spent July 4th, for the past 13 years, at the Town Park in Pound Ridge in Westchester County, just 50 miles north of New York City. This year I went with a few neighbors and the new amazing man I love and now live with. The holiday wasn’t always this good. In fact, it was never this good. We brought a blanket and some wine and sat on the lawn with folks in their jeans and baseball caps with their babies and Labradors. Everyone oohed and aahed at the fireworks and their cracklebooms. I enjoyed the show for the first ten minutes and then, after that, I pretended to enjoy it some more. My mind wandered. Were those sparks going to fall on our heads? Were there any ticks crawling up my shorts? How will we ever find the car now that it’s pitch black? And, inevitably, how the hell are we going to get out of Iraq and doesn’t everyone in the world hate America and are they right? July 4th in Pound Ridge has a small-town heart that I love, but I wish I could get out of my New York City brain.
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