Many of you are familiar with my long sordid past with the aviary species. If not, read this or at least content yourself with this bit of knowledge: historically, something about my presence appears to compel many a bird to, well, release while in close proximity to me. Thus, I view the aviary species with […]
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Things I Love About Island Living: #3
I love the almost inexplicable way in which all paths lead, in the end to home and to the sea.
What Pain Does To My Brain
Over the weekend, I threw out my back. The recovery process has been slow going, so here I am, sitting in bed with a heating pad, going over old pictures, wallowing in how this week has not gone as planned. My thoughts are aimless for the most part, but for some reason, I keep coming […]
Unrelated Blathering
Today’s been all manner of blah weather thus far. As in, blah like this. Mixed with a little bit of this. In my world, blah weather leads to unrelated blathering. So you’ve been warned. Yes, the weather leaves something to be desired today. Yesterday was similar, and Saturday was not that far removed from today […]
Converations Overheard On The Island
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 […]
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 […]