After securing my camera bag in the pink basket attached to the front of my baby blue Schwinn, I hopped on and pedaled away in my flip flops. Weaving through tourists dragging coolers, wet towels and crying children as they exit the beach, I head toward the southern tip of Tybee. This is about five […]
Several years ago Sean and I both read a book by Timothy Ferriss called the Four Hour Work Week. This was well before we even had a thought of moving out of state. But it did begin to stir within us that there must be another way to live and work. The author challenges the […]
Fourth of July fireworks were never a big draw for me. I guess it’s because I grew up near Washington DC and our family never wanted to fight the crowds, traffic and hassle to go and be a participant. For several years, the Fourth was a family pool party at my parent’s house. That’s what […]
It was late one afternoon, still dreary and cold. The calendar said it was spring, but it didn’t feel like it yet. The grey clouds of depression seemed to hang over our heads, indefinitely. Most of our long time friends that we had through the years had moved away and found other places to carry […]
Growing up in Virginia, near the Potomac river, but still hours away from the ocean coast, I did not know much about the salt life that I read about in other people’s lives. Deciding where to start life over, we took my iPad and started following a path down the coast. “Let’s find a place […]
In between photo shoots today, Sean and I had a little time to kill. Scrolling through Facebook on my phone, I see Jeremy’s post (Jeremy is one third, of ‘In for a Penny’, Sean’s rowdy Irish band) he was announcing that it is Taco Tuesday at Blowin’ Smoke, a funky little restaurant in downtown Savannah. […]
Many people have been asking me to write this post, but honestly I have not known where to start. First there is the clinical side of the story. That is the timeline marking minute by minute the chain of events that unfolded on Friday June 12 and turned into a scary and heroic rescue resulting […]
It’s a typical work day on tybee. We got home at 2:07 am. Sean just finished his last set at the Sandbar after hosting open mic as he belted out Guardian Angel to the packed bar. I log in 6 hours of sleep and wake up to my preprogrammed pot of hot coffee. As I […]
Do you ever have a time when you are driving along and completely zone out, miss a turn and not even realize it till you are miles away? You clearly know the route you were supposed to take, but your mind was in another place. Not paying attention to the present. You were fixated on […]
Sitting across the table from the recruiting officer, listening to his descriptive adventures of being an Airdale flight navigator. Our son Carder, at age seventeen was asked what he would like to do for the Coast Guard. He replied “I.T.” The petty officer, said “Oh, no, you don’t want to do that. You would end […]