You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Humor is an essential part of island life. After all, when a flying cockroach the size of a sparrow decides to take flight straight at your head, the only response (after shrieking and running full...Read More
Vitamin Sea Therapy
"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea." ~ Isak Dinesen This is my favorite quote. Ever. I first read it in a Jimmy Buffet autobiography, when he paraphrased it....Read More
Darkness and Light (and how you can help)
One week out from Hurricane Irma. Military forces from the UK, US, France & The Netherlands have finally moved in to restore some semblance of order. The looting is subsiding and aid is being distributed....Read More
The Trouble With Paradise
Well...not really. There is no real trouble with paradise, it just seems like it sometimes. After all, paradise is pretty much that...paradise. The sun rises, the palm trees sway, the turquoise sea sparkles like a...Read More
Bikini Meltdown (Confessions of a Swimsuit Addict)
No, this is not a lament about the toll this absurdly beautiful climate takes on your clothes. You can read about that dilemma here. This is about something very different. Yet strangely the same. It...Read More
When Life Hands You Lemons…Go Kitesurfing
Sometimes it is hard to find the humor in a situation. Or even in life in general. Which is what I've been struggling with recently. Not at the micro-level. In that respect, things are humming...Read More