It’s not a delicious beach-house-vacation nap unless you have a seashells pillow and moons-and-stars sheets

Please remember to use your inside voices.

Margo’s selfie game isn’t terribly strong

but her power for stealing all the love in a room when the cameras aren’t handy is spot-on.

I’m trying to enjoy a lovely(ish) read about a doomed passenger ship

at the dawn of a world war that is hardly a “world” war as the entire southern hemisphere seems to have been a bit of an afterthought but anyway I’m trying to enjoy a lovely(ish) read on my favorite porch in the world (including the entire southern hemisphere because *I* don’t see the world through the arrogant, entitled lens of Northern European privilege) but it’s too darn close to the beach and people with cute dogs keep walking by.

I don’t know why a beach house would have a Merman room, especially when it’s decorated in mermaids. Coastal elites are weird.