The second bath tub piece I wrote.  I adore baths...don't you?

 This was the summer of my 40th birthday.  I won 3rd place on AOL with this week's entry.  So many nice things happened to me that summer.  I really felt myself healing.  The best thing about this essay is that I managed to do every one of those things I said I was gonna do. The mountain's name is Thurston.  I've had green and black sand in my bathing suit bottoms.  I had a wonderful underwater encounter with a sea turtle.  That was the first of several races I've been in.  And I will be starting my third year of school on my 42 birthday.  Ain't I sumthin?