Before I start on the topic at hand, I need to share two things. First, last night, for the first time in I don’t want to know how long, while purchasing wine at our local grocery store, I was (drum roll please) carded. Let’s all pause and reflect with awe and thankfulness on that one […]
Author: Island Mom
There’s No Place Like Home
We’re home again. And there’s no place like it, I must say. I remember that feeling as a child, coming home after a week or two of vacation, after being cooped up in the car for hours on end. The thing that always smacked me in the face, though, was the 70s vibrant green shag […]
Latin #6
Latin root #6: NOMEN, NOMIN Meaning: name Words: 1. nom de plume (n) (plume = feather, as in feather pen): the pen name of a writer I, Christine, have given myself the nom de plume of An Island Mom. I like to imagine trumpets sounding when this is said aloud. This makes me feel like […]
The Audio Book of The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo, read by Graeme Malcolm
Many of you are probably familiar with the story The Tale of Despereaux, either through the movie version or through the book. If you’ve only seen the movie, which is well-done but a vastly different storyline, I encourage you to read the book. Large parts of the story are not included in the movie and […]
A Big Tangent
This is the sunrise we woke up to the day we left for our trip. I’m obviously not a photographer, yet anyway, but you can imagine how beautiful this is in person. It gets me every time. I miss it already. I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I woke up with a headache. The funny […]
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The Island Family Voyage
The Island Family is on the road for a few days. It looks like we are in for an as yet undisclosed change in the next few months, so we have some work to do to make it happen. I’ll keep you posted. Right now, the impending change has resulted in me trying to write […]