I live by the beach where I can smell the breeze of the ocean. It's fabulous, except for times like now when there's an unsavory stench in the breeze and it smells like a thousand sardines committed mass suicide on my porch. Ah...nature. It's one of those pieces of information that never get written about possibly because they might be bad for the real estate market. Come to think of it, brochures on beach living don't come with a scrat-n'-sniff.

Just for today, I accept all the realities of living by the ocean.