If you are new to this story, you may want to pour yourself a glass of wine and start here: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, and Part X. This is the part of the story that’s hard to tell. I want to […]
Author: Island Mom
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Summer List 2012
Last year, I wrote about my habit, started in Chicago, of making a list of must-dos for summer as a way of celebrating the season. As tomorrow marks the official beginning of summer and the summer solstice, I’m busy finalizing the Summer of 2012 list. There are the staples, of course, like pitchers of pink […]
Natural Pest Control
I wasn’t initially planning on showing the pictures I’m about to show, figuring many of you might be a tad squeamish about these sorts of things. However, based on some of the reactions to a post a while back about my deck geckos and to last week’s post about crabs in my house, reactions I’d […]
Dead Low Tide by Bret Lott
Ten years ago, I stumbled on the literary suspense novel The Hunt Club. The author, Bret Lott, is perhaps best know for his novel Jewel, an Oprah’s Book Club selection. At this point, however, I hadn’t read any of Lott’s works yet, but that strange internal divining rod I have that has led me well […]
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Martha Stewart and My Inadequacy
Recently, I received several complimentary magazine subscriptions, including one for Martha Stewart Living. I looked forward to receiving my subscription, because I like Martha. I can’t relate to her so much, but I do like her. The July issue just came in the mail last weekend, then, and I started reading the article “Grilling Up […]
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Crabs Are in the House
Crabs are in the house, folks. Literally. As in, in my house. This is one of those “never happened in Chicago†things. And if you had told me 10 years or more ago that someday undomesticated crabs would, in fact, be in my house? I honestly have no clue how I would have reacted. I […]