You gotta love yesterday morning on the ocean: Wishing everyone a happy Halloween, filled with low-caloric dark chocolate!
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Today In Numbers
1. We woke up on the island that we still think of as our home to weather most yucky. 2. Since it was yucky, my eldest stayed dry and surfed via video games instead. 3. Then, around noon, the heavens opened up and poured forth this. 4. In the afternoon, we had an appointment that […]
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Reading Aloud To My Third-Grader (Plus A Few Others)
Well, I just got back from being a mystery reader at my son’s school this morning, for his third grade class. Mystery readers are adults who volunteer to come in and read to the class for 30 minutes. The students don’t know who the reader will be until they all walk into the classroom and […]
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Pumpkin-Patching It With My Daughter
Yesterday, I returned to the souped-up pumpkin patch, this time with my daughter. And let me just say that it was most interesting to note the difference in approach between a preschool-aged girl and a first grade boy. For starters, I never noticed it at the time, but at the maize-grinding station, my son ground […]
Weekend Developments
It’s official. Saturday, we finished unpacking the last of the boxes from our move. Well, with the exception of a couple of my old boxes of teaching materials sitting in the garage right now. Which I’ll hurry up and do right after I post this, because we all know how likely it is that I […]
Island #1: Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
Situated just east of Wilmington, North Carolina, in the southern part of the state, Wrightsville Beach is a narrow island about four miles long. Year-round, it has about 3,000 residents, but swells to more than 10 times that during the summer months. In this series, many of the islands I will feature, including Wrightsville […]