In my experience living on an island, the stories people tell and the exchanges people have here are often different than most of the ones I remember from living “off-island.†Islands tend to be filled with destination movers, or people who move there for the place itself, instead of moving for jobs or family. This […]
beach life
Thriving Sea Oats
I moved to the beach for the ocean, the waves, the sand, the sun and the lifestyle those things bring with them. After I arrived, I also grew to love many things I had little noticed before. Dune grass in general and sea oats in particular are chief among those things. The golden yellow stalks […]
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Lazy Sunday Afternoon
After spending the better part of Saturday organizing my husband’s office with him and attempting step 1 of a 12-step organizational plan for the small people’s toys designed to keep the crazy in me at bay a little longer, we were wiped. So on Sunday, finally coming to terms with the fact that it’s so […]
A Few Of The Best Things About Fall In Coastal Carolina
No crowds With each week that passes, the beaches get less and less crowded. This applies to restaurants, stores, and just about everything else as well. There’s nothing like waking at sunrise and finding you are one of only a few people or sometimes even the only person on the beach. Warm temperatures Sorry about […]
Coastal Mirrors & Guilty Little Pleasures
I have this relatively new guilty little pleasure. It’s a blog I recently found, called Completely Coastal. It has all sorts of beautiful things on it, things I dream of having in my house someday. Like, the first post I think I read […]
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 […]