Yesterday morning, on the last day of September, I awoke to this. I’m growing to love the look of the morning sun on the marsh at high tide, and the fall colors work well, I think, against this backdrop. Mid-morning, baby-girl and I took a short field trip with her preschool class to a dentist’s […]
Author: Island Mom
A Carolina Island Life: How It Came To Pass, Part VI
At some point during our search, I had stumbled on a book outlining some of the best small towns to live in within the United States. There were several cities that piqued our interest, including a small town in North Carolina called Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City is about an hour west of the Outer Banks, […]
Cheerwine, Anyone?
For years, as a Chicagoan, I consumed vast amounts of steaks and pizzas with gluttonous abandon, reveling in my good fortune to live in an area so gifted in the culinary arts. When we moved to Carolina, then, there was a whole new world of food and beverages to explore. The most dramatic shift in […]
Still Trying For My Green Thumb
Yesterday, I decided to try my hand at a small sago palm again. Last fall, I purchased one because it said “Wants Minimal Attention†on the tag, figuring it would be hard to go wrong with a plant like this. Turns out, it was not so hard after all. So when I came home with […]
A Few Of The Best Things About Fall In Coastal Carolina
No crowds With each week that passes, the beaches get less and less crowded. This applies to restaurants, stores, and just about everything else as well. There’s nothing like waking at sunrise and finding you are one of only a few people or sometimes even the only person on the beach. Warm temperatures Sorry about […]
A Carolina Island Life: How It Came To Pass, Part V
The territory we were now looking at extended really from Virginia Beach to the north to the Florida Keys to the south. While this was a miniscule area compared to the world we had started with, it was still a relatively large territory to cover in terms of visiting and researching. And now, while much […]