It’s labor day weekend. The final hurrah of summer for most of the country. Our island has slowed down in the last week. There was threat of Tropical storm Erika visiting us. Even though her travel plans changed, many tourists diverted their plans too. Cancelling reservations on what turned out to be a fantastic sunny […]
Out of my plastic cup, I sip steaming coffee and I wipe the sleepiness from my eyes. The sky is dark except for one bright planet that is still visible, pinned in the sky over the ocean. I am sitting in my minivan listening to the waves gently roll into the sand. A rhythmic pattern […]
Did you know that for the past three years, we have had a strip club on Tybee? Wait a minute, I must explain, its a bacon strip club. Yeah…I know, like you needed one more reason to fall in love with Tybee. Our good friends Tyler and Brenda started the Tybee Bacon club. They used […]
I was a stay at home mom with five kids. One in private school, one in middle school, one in elementary school, one in preschool and a nursing baby attached at the hip. I was in two car pools. I volunteered at two schools. I made home cooked meals for my family seven days a […]
Several years went by where I chose to stay at home on a Sunday morning instead of going to church like I did every week for almost thirty years. There came a point where Sundays turned into a checklist of stuff that had to be done. I got tired of going through the motions because […]
Do what you love to do and stop doing what you don’t like to do. This is what I have done with my life. Sure there are things I still have to do that I don’t like to do, but I have definitely decreased the amount of time I spend doing them. #1 Massive amounts […]
In recent days and weeks I have had several conversations with people who are excited about new doors opening and changes in store for them. Moving on to the next stage and chapter of their lives. New job, career change, school, moving to a new place, selling a house, buying a house, or completely starting […]
A blast of hot air rolled out of the rental car as I opened the passenger door. Texas heat clung to my skin until the air conditioning cooled the car. Sean and I were giving a ride to our class instructor. We were driving from the Red Roof Inn on i-35 in South Austin to […]
It’s been three years and I still haven’t gotten the hang of it. Here in the south the kids head back to school around the first week of August. Yesterday was the first day of school for many Tybee and Savannah students. This is when everyone announces “Summer’s over!” “What??” I exclaim, “It was 98 […]
Today Sean and I cleaned out the last of anything we had saved in storage here in Virginia. My dad had loaned us a large sea container to store the remnants of our past life that was on the back of his 30 acre property. Each time we would return to Virginia we would grab […]