On a whim, really, I decided I’d like to share my spur-of-the-moment list of ten of the things that are just wrong with the world. They just started coming to me randomly after I got a whiff of some potatoes yesterday (see below for elaboration). So, I thought I’d share them because I figured some […]
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Greek #4
Greek #4 Root: PHON Meaning: sound Words: euphonic (adj) (eu- = good, well): good sounding While many people might point to a particular piece of music that they find to be especially euphonic, a sentence something like, “Here, have this large piece of good-quality, dark chocolate that’s shockingly low in calories!†might be the most […]
A Carolina Island Life: How It Came To Pass, Part I
Several people have asked me how we, as Chicagoans, came to live on an island in the Carolinas, both people I’ve met through this blog and friends who haven’t heard the account in its entirety. The answer to this, like the answer to most things, I sometimes suspect, is in essence a story. And so […]
Shark Teeth In Carolina And Beyond
I have a neighbor who estimates she’s collected about 250,000 shark teeth thus far. I promise you, if I had ended up in Chicago for the rest of my life, I would have no understanding of what I just said. How do you collect shark teeth? I didn’t stay in Chicago for the rest of […]
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My Son Loves Reading, Except When He Doesn’t
A couple weeks ago, we went to the library, which was an unusual event only in that all five of us went together. As we were pulling into the parking lot, my eldest dropped a bomb. “I hate reading,†came the revelatory proclamation from the back seat of the minivan. I gripped my door handle […]
Sea Glass
Have you ever seen something and then once you see it, you can’t “unsee†it? I was that way with sea glass. Sea glass, or beach glass, or even, for the more romantically inclined, mermaids’ tears, is glass that sits in the ocean (usually) being churned by the waves against rocks or sand for a […]