On the island, the ocean isn’t the only thing meant for diving in. After a push, the sand by the deck becomes, for some, the beach’s new trampoline park. In the end, the only thing it doesn’t have is the bounce. I guess when you’re a kid, you don’t really need the bounce.
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April on the Island
I’ve written about the wild life we have here on the Carolina coast, about animals I’ve never seen in Chicago, like alligators, dolphins, geckos, crabs that invade our garage (and sometimes our house), roaches water bugs palmetto bugs that are an unavoidable aspect of coastal living in the South, and even the corn snake that […]
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Coffee with Christine: My Current First Draft Lifestyle
Grab your java while I jabber. For starters, have you all seen this week’s Facebook post with a picture of a dog lying limply on the floor? It reads, “I can’t adult today. Please don’t make me adult today.†I’m by nature a tangential thinker, so of course my mind went to a place where […]
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Children’s Christmas Books for 2014
On the eve of Christmas Eve, I thought I’d add four new titles to the list of children’s Christmas books I began in 2011 and added to in 2012 and 2013. Tony Buzzeo’s Lighthouse Christmas is inspired by the Flying Santa Service that delivers presents to lighthouse keepers, Coast Guard members, and their families. Frances […]
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About the Wave
For some, it’s about the anticipation of the waves to come. For others, it’s about what the waves leave behind. And then there are those who believe in the end, it’s about letting the wave take you as far as it can.
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Because Not Every Day Can Be a Ten & Not Everyone Can Live by a Dairy Queen
This last summer, I was having a conversation with a fellow mother in the school parking lot. We were talking about our children and their excitement or decided lack thereof about going back to school. While both of my boys would gladly never darken the doors of an educational institution again (or so they say […]