Last Saturday, we completed the final games of the cheerleading and basketball season. Baby-girl ended up in the front row for her dance this time, and, true to form, she began by staring behind her, riveted by who knows what. That’s my girl, or as LCB likes to clarify, her mother’s daughter. My son played […]
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Things I Love About Island Living: #5
I love how layered island living is, that “…it’s not just the beach, but the place where the water meets the land – the rivers, the estuaries, the coastal tidal marshes and creeks.” Quotation by Philip Gerard, writer and professor in coastal North Carolina
Beyond The Atlantic: The Intracoastal Waterway
Call me stupid (Thanks, thanks so much), but when I first moved to our island, I could have included in one unimaginative sentence everything I knew about the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW). The sentence would have gone something like this: The Intracoastal Waterway extends throughout the Carolinas (this part would be based on my astute powers […]
The Sea: Day by Day, by Philip Plisson
Looking for a coffee table book about coffee tables . . . I mean the sea? C’mon, you know you want one, even if you just realized it in this moment. If so, may I suggest The Sea: Day by Day by marine […]
President’s Day Weekend, Island Style
Happy President’s Day, everyone! Hope you’ve all enjoyed the holiday weekend. Our weekend? Well, here goes. Friday: Thanks to the small people, our house now has an additional measure of security that will be sure to dissuade any would-be troublemakers from conducting their business in our yard. Friday afternoon, the kids developed a rather complex […]