As I’ve mentioned earlier, my daughter has an affinity for all things Peter Pan, including his ride at Disney World and the pixie dust so generously sprinkled by his good friend Tinker Bell. Therefore, I was greatly interested when she told me, a few weeks ago on the way home from preschool, that she […]
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Watch Out For ‘Em Chiggers!
We came to our island initially because we wanted a beach, and a warm one at that. But, as many of you have probably also experienced when you moved to new areas, a whole host of things came to my attention, particularly in those first weeks and months after moving, that I have since grown […]
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Truth In Blogging
I have to confess that I have no idea how photographers manage to orchestrate most of the shots of models you see on the internet and in print. Really, I don’t know how they possibly do it, even with the best of technology and things like rampant airbrushing at their disposal. Last Saturday, I wrote […]
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Spring Break 2012
For years in Chicago, every time my spring break week rolled around, LCB and I went somewhere beachy and warm. Spring break was usually in March there, about the time we couldn’t stand one more second of winter, so we’d spend the week basking in the sun and the ocean, hoping to avoid running into […]
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Easter Weekend On The Island
In an effort to be completely unpredictable, we spent the largest part of the Easter weekend on the beach. Saturday, we did the normal routine of boogie boarding, building castles, shelling and so forth for a good part of the afternoon. Later on, the small people found a ghost crab far up the shore, barely […]
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Lives Made Pink
When our lives were just about two little boys, it mainly involved things like this, this, and this. Basically, we focused on general adventure-type activities, where my primary responsibility was to ensure everyone simply made it through the adventure, preferably but not necessarily intact. Since we added a girl to the mix more than five […]