Yesterday morning, on the last day of September, I awoke to this. I’m growing to love the look of the morning sun on the marsh at high tide, and the fall colors work well, I think, against this backdrop. Mid-morning, baby-girl and I took a short field trip with her preschool class to a dentist’s […]
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Cheerwine, Anyone?
For years, as a Chicagoan, I consumed vast amounts of steaks and pizzas with gluttonous abandon, reveling in my good fortune to live in an area so gifted in the culinary arts. When we moved to Carolina, then, there was a whole new world of food and beverages to explore. The most dramatic shift in […]
A Carolina Island Life: How It Came To Pass, Part V
The territory we were now looking at extended really from Virginia Beach to the north to the Florida Keys to the south. While this was a miniscule area compared to the world we had started with, it was still a relatively large territory to cover in terms of visiting and researching. And now, while much […]
I Do Mothering All The Time
This just happened to me an hour ago in the grocery store. I was standing in an aisle, deliberating over granola bars while the three small people, all wound up from school and so forth, played one of their “shuffle around in an odd manner and draw as much attention to us as possible†games […]
Carolina Fishing From The Perspective Of An Ignoramus
There’s a great deal of fishing going on this time of year on the coast. Most mornings, I wake up to at least one fishing boat not that far out from shore. They’re a thing of beauty, I think, with their gear fully extended, the sunlight reflecting off the white of the boats. Sometimes, in […]
A Carolina Cold Spell
We sure had us a cold spell here in the Carolinas over the weekend. It got down into the 60s during the day, which, lest you laugh at me, is remarkably cold for the coast this time of year. We went back to do a little more clean up at our old house, and, not […]