Category: Island Life

Halloween is the biggest holiday and my favorite on our little island.  I love how the whole island turns out uptown for trick-or-treating.  Young and old are costumed

It’s a ferry life we live.  The only way on or off our island is by boat.  You drive your car right on it, (or walk on) cross

At our grocery store, they provide you “help out.”  It’s heavenly.  Especially when you’re lugging two kiddos with you.  Presto, someone pushes your cart (with your kids and

This is where I live. Okay, I don’t live in this forest– but kind of.  The island that I live in is covered with these sorts of things.

Our island is famous for a bike in a tree.  There is even a Bed and Breakfast under that name– and I believe it’s run by the family

Isn’t this just the cutest, most picturesque farmette!?  At least that’s what I call it.  I don’t know what the people who own it call it.  But situated

This is probably TMI but my weird and brave husband has been known to grill in the buff.  We have a very private backyard, and an outdoor bath

How many people do you know who have a school bus in their yard?  Well you know me.  And we have had one, for a long time.  Isn’t

It’s a special place where I live.  An island of artists, farmers, and people who, boldly do whatever it is they do– with aplomb.  I could do a whole

One great thing about living on an island is that there are fishermen (and women presumably).  This is about a mile from my house. I’ve lived in the