Becca Miller, The unpopular smell of home
This is a sumset picture from the beach I am writing about. In A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman often talked about how smells have a memory attached to them. While reading her examples I found myself thinking about some smells that have a personal meaning to me, whether that be a memory or a feeling of home. What I started to think about is the smell I miss the most while I’m at school and reminds me of home I came up with the smell of low tide aka the sulfur ocean smell you get sometimes at the beach. When I was in 5 th grade my family moved to Cape Cod from central Massachusetts, and I hated that smell at first. It would fill up the school bus as it would drive me to school or as we passed the marsh on my way to my grandparent’s house. The smell is so strong as I’m writing this I can think back to what it smelt like. As I grew up I found that I missed it when I would go away for vacation. Now that smell mean...