Walt Amses: Summer’s reluctant departure

Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in Calais.
“I’ve lived in good climate and it bores the hell out of me.”
— John Steinbeck
It’s October. The full wetsuit protects me from the ever-chillier water but sends a far more sinister message, reinforced by my extremities, each of which protrudes from the latex, climatological data collectors, finally concluding: The weirdest of weird summers is reluctantly stepping aside, perhaps sett