Last week’s blog, Taking a Week Off, was unexpectedly mis-titled. Instead of kicking back, my husband and I went to Cancun for a family visit. Our son Ben planned an outing for us to snorkel with Whale Sharks. Spoiler alert: Whale Sharks are neither whales nor sharks. They are gigantic fish who feed off plankton and could not be bothered with humans. They range in size from a small camper to a school bus. If you look carefully at the photo, you will see in the top right lit space, the faint outlines of some teeny tiny humans. Soon I hope to have some photos of myself snorkeling near one, but that could take awhile. I hope fear can’t be seen through a snorkel mask.
Bill marked up a photo of himself (small orange spot) alongside one of the Whale Sharks.
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About Alexis
Alexis Rankin Popik, author of Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate, is an award-winning short story writer whose work has appeared in The Berkshire Review and Potpourri Magazine. She has penned numerous articles about local history that have been published in Connecticut Explored and the University of Connecticut School of Law and The Hartford Seminary publications. A former union organizer, Popik traveled the country educating shipyard workers about health and safety and founded a labor-management health plan before turning to writing fiction full-time. She lives with her husband in New England.
