Yesterday, I decided to try my hand at a small sago palm again. Last fall, I purchased one because it said “Wants Minimal Attention†on the tag, figuring it would be hard to go wrong with a plant like this. Turns out, it was not so hard after all. So when I came home with […]
island living
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]