Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
I like living near this historic body of water. I’m reading the 1970s best seller “Chesapeake,” by James Michener (dedicated to a Mari). My mom sent it to me when we moved here, and I always love reading about a place when I’m there (travel post on THAT coming soon). We are on the countdown…
They say a bad day on the water is better than a good day anywhere else. Those people didn’t have my freaking out kids in their canoe. I don’t know if it was their ages or the steady supply of lollipops I brought, but this season’s inaugural float was fantastic! Hardly any tantrums. THIS is…
A girl’s gotta get from here to there, after all.
In college, my favorite white polo shirt got soaked with blood in a car accident. I thought I’d throw it away, but my mom took it and said she’d work on it. She got out every spot. Every single one. It looked better than before. That’s my mom even now, especially this tour as I’ve…
“I’m on a train ride at Busch Gardens with a cookie. Nothing could be worse!” —ELOISE “I didn’t like that one bit! It was too fast for me! Any time I go on that ride it gives me a headache!” Isaac, re: the Grover rollercoaster We had so much fun at Busch Gardens last year…
The fantastic photographer who came with the kids and me to welcome home Chris’ ship is a military spouse. I found out about her from a military spouse group. I would not have made it through this tour without other military spouses (and my mom!). And we wouldn’t be able to be nearly as invested…
Suzanne Wolfe’s “Confessions of X,” is historical fiction about the life of St. Augustine’s love interest. This historically unnamed woman leaves her skeezy uncle’s house to promise herself to Augustine. He makes no promises to her. They are of different social classes and can’t legally marry, but their arrangement is generally respectable. They have a…
