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 […]
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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 […]
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The Remains of the (Last September) Day
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 […]
A Carolina Island Life: How It Came To Pass, Part VI
At some point during our search, I had stumbled on a book outlining some of the best small towns to live in within the United States. There were several cities that piqued our interest, including a small town in North Carolina called Elizabeth City. Elizabeth City is about an hour west of the Outer Banks, […]
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 […]