A handful of pearls. That was all Nerissa had. Oh, she’d grown up in Poseidon’s Grotto, with abalone combs and aquamarine and moonstone gems, but when she’d left the great ocean to marry a land-walker

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And yet, these winter holidays all have something in common as well aside from the tendency to celebrate with incredibly delicious, albeit unhealthy foods. They all bring light to the longest nights

Oh, you better not splash, you better not wail. Better keep flippin' that shimmering tail. Sandy Klaws is comin' to town.

And on solstice mornings, with landwalker-entrancing song and candy darters, they would send me out to play and I would glide through the swaying kelp searching for news of the Seven Seas, and always

In the deep blue ocean, far beneath the tide, Cold and shadowed waters, secrets there abide.

My personal favorite bedtime story though is AlexFlounder and the Torrential, Hazardous, Not-Calm, Very-Dangerous Wave.

Using the to-dune list is a great way to relieve stress.

My merman and I have been spending time at the dive-in.

Mermaids are claustrophobic. We're also allergic to oregano. But not Oregon.