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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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A Hodge-Podge Of Thoughts
Due to some unforeseen drama in my life (beyond the normal dramatic levels), my brain is not functioning at its regular stunningly-large capacity (now I sound like my husband), so rather than try to reign myself in, I will simply present to you, good people, a hodge-podge of thoughts. 1. Another one bites the dust. […]
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Blueberry Picking One More Time
Oops, we did it again! Kinda like Britney Spears, except not. We had so much fun blueberry picking last time that we decided to try it again. This time, my daughter and I brought along my more loquacious half, which made for interesting picking, as I’ll explain in a minute. Last time, our goal was […]