In her autobiographical work A Backward Glance, Edith Wharton quotes Henry James as saying, “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.†With summer vacation long gone and summer’s official days waning fast, I must tip my hat to James, a man after my own […]
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And We’re Back
We’re back to school, that is, after a long, hard summer of RVs, fake Disney trips, and backyard snakes. Yeah, you heard me. After only one snake in three years of living here, we’ve now had two in a matter of three weeks. I think the second one was also non-poisonous, but as I’ve mentioned, […]
Back to School, Island Family Style
It’s official. Eighty percent of our family is now back at school. Naturally, not much about the first day went according to The Plan I painstakingly detailed in The Land of My Mind. The night before school started, for instance, the garbage disposal clogged, impertinent enough to reject the straw I someone inadvertently put in […]
I Haven’t Fallen Off the Face of the Earth
Hey, I just wanted to let all of you know I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth that, oh whoops, turned out to be flat after all. I just done got myself into a bit of a fix here, on account of a busted sink, a busted oven (yes, again!!!), a baby-girl […]