Beach Bummed: Riding the Wave of Summer

With sharp wit and a self-deprecating sense of humor, Charlotte Observer humor columnist Tracy Curtis shares a collection of stories about being thrown into the deep end of our hottest season. Beach Bummed compiles the flips and flops in trying to keep everybody happy during the wild ride of summer

It's impossible to get post-baby bodies into pre-baby bathing suits. Paddleboarding is like trying to ride an ironing board on a bed of marbles. The beach chairs don't match, leaving one person talking to everybody's feet -- and anchoring a beach tent in sand is like installing a jungle gym in sugar. The kids are bored, the hermit crab is missing and it's so hot you'd rather pour your mojito over your body than drink it. And why do kids get to go to camp? Their whole life is summer camp -- send the moms

Beach Bummed reminds us that if you're counting on the perfect summer . . . you're gonna get burned

Author: Tracy Curtis
Publisher: Tracy Lee Curtis
Published: 07/18/2016
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780997058826

About the Author
Curtis, Tracy: - Tracy Curtis is an award-winning author, speaker and former syndicated humor columnist for The McClatchy Company, nationwide. She has written over 500 columns for the Charlotte Observer, and is now publishing her Humor Me series of gift books, collections of her columns from the last decade about the imperfection of motherhood. Trophy Mom, Beach Bummed and Holidazed were released in 2016, and Holidazed was recently awarded a national 2016 Independent Publisher Book Award. Tracy speaks to literary groups, book clubs, professional organizations and conferences, and has also performed standup at The Comedy Zone. A former CNN producer, Tracy enjoyed a fifteen-year career in radio, television and film. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband, two sons and three step-children. And when she's not writing? She's unloading the dishwasher.