As the first day of summer is fast approaching, the time is right for my annual list of things to do this summer. Folks, it’s hard to follow up after ingenious ideas like last year’s #2 (waffle cone Frosty), 2011’s #9 (hug a tree), or 2012’s #1 (drive at dusk with your head out the […]
Author: Island Mom
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Coffee with Christine: End of the School Year Miscellany
Time for more coffee, y’all. Much to the small people’s delight, we’ve reached the end of the school year. And thus, I just demonstrated to you how good I am at telling the partial truth. The full version of it, you ask? In summary, while I love my students and much of what I do, […]
Happy Memorial Day!
On this day, I am so grateful for the men and women who have made and who continue to make every day both possible and free. Thank you. Â Happy Memorial Day!
Thoughts on the Sea #7
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. Hermann Broch
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Walking the Streets of Oxford
On that bright July morning in Oxford, England, I stood on Woodstock Road in my pajamas as the bus, loaded with my fellow college students, pulled away from campus. (For the record, I have not stood in public wearing pajamas since those madcap college days.) There they were, most of my associates in this Oxford […]
Life Tides
Once upon a time that now seems like a memory of both yesterday and a century ago, there was a young woman who said “yes†to a question posed on the beach one fine, sunny day (actually, it was pitch-black and winter-cold, but let’s pretend). This soon-to-be bride was in need of, among other things, […]