“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.†Ben Franklin Wishing you all the peace and betterment the new year can bring. Happy New Year!
Island Life
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.†Luke 2:14 Merry Christmas and the happiest of holidays from our family to yours!
‘Tis the Week Before Christmas
‘Tis the week before Christmas, and all through the island house, all the creatures are stirring and have already accomplished the following: Baked Christmas cookies twice Shopped with a ten-year-old girl for another ten-year-old girl (a harrowing and laborious feat) Attended one Christmas party Missed one Christmas party (long story) Discovered, after all our paring […]
Coastal Christmas Ornaments for 2017
Over Thanksgiving weekend, Baby-Girl and I did some shopping. This is not our typical holiday weekend practice, but the three boys decided to go camping and left us to our own devices for a whole weekend, so Saturday found us hitting all the island shops, scouting out, among other things, coastal Christmas ornaments. Given that […]
On Thanksgiving
Maybe it’s just my imagination, but the shrimp boats always seem to be the most prevalent near our shoreline right around Thanksgiving. I watch them at dawn, the sun rising fire-like behind them, and in the afternoon, as they travel through the sun’s white path across the waves. At dusk, I watch their lights turn […]
Fall All the Same
During a scene in The Great Gatsby where several characters languish in the summer heat of New York City, one character chastises another for being “morbid†in her attitude and declares that “life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.†Here, the weather doesn’t get “crisp†in the fall the way […]