I can’t count how often they’ve spent the hour before sunset like this, backs bent low over the sand, the ocean ever beside them. In these moments, had I the power to suspend time, I would.
Author: Island Mom
Visiting My Island Friends to the South: Day Two
Day Two dawned, because sleep is a priority in my birth family, not so early. We breakfasted at the hotel, where I used my very first pancake maker. (You push a button, and a minute later, two pancakes come rolling out the side of the machine. Sometimes, it’s the small things that mesmerize me.) Then, […]
Visiting My Island Friends to the South: Day One
Last week, I mentioned that I visited two relatively new-to-me islands recently. Months ago, my mom offered to take my sister and me on a girls’ getaway weekend. Managing the schedules of three women from three different states, however, proved to be a time-consuming challenge. Plus, we had to contend with the fact that I […]
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I Still Haven’t Fallen Off the Face of the Earth
This is just to say that I still haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. But, in defense of my recent postlessness, I’ve been grading fall-on-my-sword amounts of literary analysis papers for the last week. Y’all, I’m a tad rusty after the world’s largest maternity leave. Nothing, nothing in the world of managing the […]
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Educating a Kindergartener
Recently, my daughter came home from kindergarten and launched into an explanation of the difference between fiction and nonfiction. I was duly impressed when she then provided several examples of both. I smiled to myself, and frankly, I had a little moment where I privately extolled the virtues of a good education. I praised her […]
Things I Love About Island Living #11
I love the skies above the waters, and especially, the point on the distant horizon where sky meets sea. You might want to check out 10 of the other things I love about island living as well. #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, & #10