I love all the things made possible by the breeze coming off of the sea.
Author: Island Mom
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Further Thoughts On Going Back To School
A few short weeks ago, I found myself standing in front of a classroom of high school students, teaching a pre-reading lesson I’d prepared on the Shakespearean play Julius Caesar. After almost eight years out of the classroom, the moment, complete with new students, a new locale, and new educators evaluating me, initially felt surreal. […]
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Easter Weekend On The Island
In an effort to be completely unpredictable, we spent the largest part of the Easter weekend on the beach. Saturday, we did the normal routine of boogie boarding, building castles, shelling and so forth for a good part of the afternoon. Later on, the small people found a ghost crab far up the shore, barely […]
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On The Far Side Of The Sea
In late February one afternoon, I found myself quite suddenly and quite literally, in the principal’s office with my daughter. It’s just this thing we like to do together, except not. No, actually, she was not in trouble, nor was I, thankfully. On my honor, I had been running errands one minute, and the next […]
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Lives Made Pink
When our lives were just about two little boys, it mainly involved things like this, this, and this. Basically, we focused on general adventure-type activities, where my primary responsibility was to ensure everyone simply made it through the adventure, preferably but not necessarily intact. Since we added a girl to the mix more than five […]
An Island Mom’s First Anniversary!
From my vantage point, it seems hard to believe that today is the one year anniversary of An Island Mom. One year ago I sat, surrounded by lists of post ideas and a few rough drafts, trying to figure out how to make this whole thing tangible to anyone other than myself. And now, here […]