Today, I received some disappointing news. Don’t worry; my family and I are all okay and in the grand scheme of things, this too shall eventually pass. We are blessed. But today’s news means this upcoming year, the year where I hoped everything would finally start to settle for us on our new island, appears […]
Coastal Living
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Touring Boone Hall Plantation
Last week, I began writing a post about our field trip to Boone Hall Plantation, but my narrative of the bus ride there ultimately took on a life and a post of its own. So today, I’ll share about our time at the plantation. As we neared the plantation that morning, it began raining. Fortunately […]
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To The Salt Marsh (And Back Again)
Once upon a time, a king named LCB and his three small people (two princes and a princess) decided to use the younger prince’s remote control boat. They went to a nearby lagoon known for its smooth, crystal waters and drove the boat round and round the lagoon, until they noticed a nearby baby alligator […]
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When Tuesday Goes Slightly Awry
In one of the great ironies of life, I, a reading specialist, am a bad reader. By bad, I don’t mean that I am not able to read well, as indeed I am able and have done well overall in reading. Rather, I mean that I don’t naturally implement many good reading practices, including reading […]
Supermoon On A Salt Marsh
Tonight will mark our first supermoon on our new island. This time, we’ll be watching it make its way over the salt marsh instead of over the ocean as we’ve watched it in years past. Today, for some reason, the thought of the supermoon keeps bringing me back to the first night we spent in […]
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Peter Pan & The World Of Preschool Imagination
As I’ve mentioned earlier, my daughter has an affinity for all things Peter Pan, including his ride at Disney World and the pixie dust so generously sprinkled by his good friend Tinker Bell. Therefore, I was greatly interested when she told me, a few weeks ago on the way home from preschool, that she […]