Sorry, y’all. It’s been one of those weeks. You know those weeks you have when you have a cough that keeps you up at night, when you have a you-have-to-leave-your-home-and-look-presentable event every night of the week, when you have to finish grading all your students’ research papers and writing all your exams, when you have […]
Author: Island Mom
Sides of Suspension
About three years ago, shortly after Thanksgiving, I wrote a post called Suspension. We had moved to a new island a few months earlier and had just been back for a visit to our old island, so I wrote about our feelings of being suspended between the two islands, of living “half in the old […]
Where Were We This Week?
Last year, we spent Thanksgiving back at the old island, enjoying this, and doing lots of this. This year, we did things a bit differently. I’m going to give you three clues as to where we spent the better part of Thanksgiving Week. Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Exhibit C: Any guesses? Any guess counts as […]
An Island Mom Christmas Giveaway!
They say Christmas is the season of giving, so far be it from me to argue. Thus, in celebration of this holiday season, and as a way of sharing a little bit of the coastal Carolinas with y’all, I’m giving away holiday linens from one of my favorite coastal Carolina companies, Lowcountry Linens. Their beautiful […]
Thoughts on the Sea #11
There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. Herman Melville (Yes, it’s from Moby Dick.) For other thoughts on the sea, see #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, and #10. Coming Next Week: An Island Mom’s Christmas […]