I’m not much of an athlete. I never was one. Other than a relatively brief period as a cheerleader, I’ve only attempted one athletic pursuit, and that was soccer in eighth grade. I had no intention of trying out for my school team until I found myself in a new, very strange school where literally, […]
Off Island
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Cedar Point and Castaway Bay
Well, our big voyage north of the Mason-Dixon line to see our Yankee family members, the one which included a stop at an off-island beach, was actually also laced with a little business. Okay, a lot of business. As in, a week’s worth of business turned into four weeks’ worth of business. So there went […]
A Food Show Involving Chocolate
Normally, LCB works primarily out of the house, but he has been traveling extensively the last few months, being gone more than he’s been home. Thankfully, however, he is at the end of his traveling streak, and we are in the process of returning to our previously scheduled arrangement of being in each other’s hair […]
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An Off-Island Beach: Visiting Lake Michigan
Last weekend, some of our extended family invited us out to Lake Michigan to spend an evening on the beach. So we hopped in our jet and zipped on over. Except replace “jet†with “minivan†and replace “zipped†with “drove for like forever to get there.†Since I know many who live far from the […]
A Place Without Memory
Today, I received some disappointing news. Don’t worry; my family and I are all okay and in the grand scheme of things, this too shall eventually pass. We are blessed. But today’s news means this upcoming year, the year where I hoped everything would finally start to settle for us on our new island, appears […]
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Touring Boone Hall Plantation
Last week, I began writing a post about our field trip to Boone Hall Plantation, but my narrative of the bus ride there ultimately took on a life and a post of its own. So today, I’ll share about our time at the plantation. As we neared the plantation that morning, it began raining. Fortunately […]