We drove to Virginia the Saturday before Thanksgiving, expecting to stay only one week, but as life would take its twists, turns, peaks and valleys, I ended up staying an additional week. Sean was asked to sing and play mandolin for a friend’s wedding on Sunday. So we spent a couple days in the mountains. […]
Thanksgiving morning I woke early so that I could get food prepared and cooking started. For years, my dad cooked the majority of the traditional meal. This year, he is recovering from major back surgery he underwent about eight weeks ago. If we were going to celebrate Thanksgiving the way we always have, then it […]
Sean quietly knocked on my door then came into our bedroom to tell me the unsettling news. He had just received the call that everyone with aging parents dreads to take. His mom had informed him that his dad had been admitted into the ICU at a hospital in Daytona. He was about two hours […]
Continued from Part 2 Meanwhile as movies are being filmed and cruise themed dinners are being served on Tybee, only sixteen miles away, the Savannah Food and Wine Festival is being prepared to knock the socks off it’s guests. We are giving a hand in marketing endeavors with our friend, entrepreneur and chef, Jeremy Diehl […]
Continued from Part 1 Tuesday arrives and my dear friend Erin and I sail over the causeway as the tide rushes into the marsh on both sides of the road. A slight chill fell into the air after the sun set behind the live oaks dripping with spanish moss. We were headed to a monthly four […]
Part 1 of 3 Living in the south, you don’t have to go far to find great food. I had a super busy week both socially and for business, which included exquisite meals most every day of this week. Starting with last Friday we got a surprise call announcing a last minute visit from Sean’s […]
A few years ago I read a life changing book. It was called “The Art of Non-Conformity” by Chris Guillebeau. At the time I started reading his writings he was in the midst of a quest to visit every country in the world before he turned 35. I was intrigued by his perspective and adopted […]
When I begin to describe Tybee for the first time to someone who’s never been here, one of the first questions asked is, “Can you drive there or do you have to take a boat or ferry?” Then I go on to explain the two bridges with a six mile causeway that connects us to […]
Sitting around the concrete slab of a bar at Hucapoos, over a year ago, my girlfriends and I were having an in depth discussion on life and what brings happiness to each of us. One friend said they had a relative that would always say “I’ll be happy when…fill in the blank” when I get […]
It was just after midnight and the train continued swaying on the rails as it pushed ahead northward through South Carolina then North Carolina. My head filled with thoughts coming from every direction. Bouncing from happy memories from less than twenty four hours ago when my just-turned-eighteen-years-old-daughter, Baylie, had invited me to dinner to the […]