Our first fall in Carolina, while we were renting a home on one island and trying to determine which of the islands in the Carolinas to settle on more permanently, we took a series of day and overnight trips to different islands, gathering relocation information. One weekend early on, we scored a hotel deal on […]
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The Colors of the Sea
Long ago, LCB resigned himself to my insatiable penchant for the sea. Now, for instance, when I mention other islands and beaches we could explore on some future vacation, his eyes roll, but LCB is, generally speaking, resigned to a fate I remind him he once willfully chose before God and man when he married […]
Full-on Summer: Part Three
Last week, I wrote about various summer beach activities, including swimming, shelling, synchronized swimming moves, and beach games. But as we all know, summer on the island (and off-island, I’m sure, as well) brings with it much, much more. And so, what’s gone down on the island of late? First, the storms that have swept […]
The Summer List for 2013
It’s time for my annual summer list, the list I make every summer of things I want to make a point to do during the course of the summer. My lists for 2011 and for 2012 have included everything from pitchers of pink lemonade to full days spent on a tube in the Atlantic. Each […]
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Girlfriend’s Got the Moves
When we first moved to the beach, I awoke one morning to see a young tourist couple out on their nearby deck landing, doing yoga. At the time, I remember being in awe of their lack of inhibitions, how unmoved they seemed by the thought of all the people sitting in their homes or on […]
My View from the Deck: Part Five
One moment there I am, clutching my coffee mug and staring at the ocean. And the next moment, a dolphin cuts the surface of the water with its fin as it swims parallel to shore in its arc-like pattern, hinting at what is teeming just below. Within a minute, they’re everywhere, sometimes circling back, moving deeper into the sea and […]