The Price of Living in Paradise

The Price of Living in Paradise

Mainland Americans always say that Hawaii is expensive. Everything has to be imported and therefore standard survival items like rice or a gallon of milk are inflated to cover the added costs of getting them to a rock out in the middle of the Pacific. Some just shrug...
Sunday Funday

Sunday Funday

Clawless Caribbean Spiny Lobster   Sunday Funday, as we have been calling it. In the past month, there has been no lack of fun on the 7th day. Mostly revolving around water sports, with an occasional frosty beverage at happy hour, Sunday has an entirely new meaning...
Changes in Latitudes

Changes in Latitudes

Sometimes I forget that I live on a tiny island in the Caribbean. Occasionally I’ll think back to the several long, cold winters I spent in Buffalo, listening to Jimmy Buffett and dreaming of palms swaying in the breeze. Here I am. Chickens cluck around the...
Bush Medicine

Bush Medicine

A home remedy for an out-island incident Living in the out-islands never has its dull moments. In a panicking moment today, I feared the worst for my sweet little Barley. Barley was a rescue dog from New York and is far from street savvy like the Potcakes (the...
Summer Storm

Summer Storm

Oh, will the lightening stop? It rumbles and careens across the sky. My linen curtains which normally dance gently in the breeze through my wide French doors now blow in fury, whipping into the room in a torrid rage, tangling and encompassing me as I pass through the...