Today is the summer solstice. It is the longest day of the year and the official first day of summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On this day, twenty years ago, I was twenty-one years old and would have been living in Sea Isle City, NJ. I\u2019d have spent the day lifeguarding on the beach at 77th Street. Around this time, I most likely would have been crushing canned beers on my way to blacking out as I watched the Phillies game, annoyed at all the kook weekenders who had invaded the shore house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This day ten years ago would have been the summer of my third year of law school. (Due to the TBI I sustained in 2005, I took one less class each semester than my classmates. Thus, I was not studying for the bar exam because I graduated in three-and-one-half years, not three years.) That summer, I think<\/em> I interned at the Defender Association of Philadelphia. I am not sure how I would have spent the summer solstice in 2011. I did not have a girlfriend, and most of my good friends had moved from the city where I lived and into the \u2018burbs. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is the summer solstice. It is the longest day of the year and the official first day of summer. On this day, twenty years ago, I was twenty-one years old and would have been living in Sea Isle City, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n