A Day in the Life of an Easily-Overwhelmed, Increasingly-Rugged Island Girl. Part 1.
Even though I live on a remote part of a tiny isolated speck in the middle of the ocean, there's somehow never a dull moment. And some days are truly just...something else. Since I failed to produce anything out of the other topics I'd planned to write for today, it...
My Sudden Island-Wide Popularity
I suddenly have a lot of new friends on my rock. It's hard not to feel popular, what with all the personal phone calls coming into the dive shop just for me. Though in reality, the calls are from people looking not for SCUBA appointments, not for me, but for my dill....
Love City Mix Tape: Side B – The East End Sessions
Read Love City Mix Tape: Side A - the Cruz Bay Years here, if it pleases you. For the first 2.5 years of life on St. John, I was a city girl. According to my Coral Bay friends, anyway, who wouldn't consider living anywhere BUT the slower, quieter side of an already...
It’s a Jungle in Here
WARNING: IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE PHOTOS OF SNAKES OR SPIDERS, PRESS "BACK" ON YOUR BROWSER NOW! There - you've been warned. And here is a harmless lizard for you before the scary photos commence: I live on a beautiful island in the Western Caribbean called Roatan. In the...
Fleas and Ticks Jump Everywhere
Never did I expect to be the kind of gal who de-ticks dogs with her bare hands. Having always been the squeamish of the squeam when it comes to creepy crawlies, I still cannot kill a bug mainly because the thought of getting that close and feeling their body crushed...
Skeeter Sizzle
Some people play video games. I swat mosquitoes. So much so, I've considered giving the activity its own category on my new time-tracking spreadsheet. Like a video game, it's a major time suck. Just as the hypnotic shapes in Candy Crush rain eternal, those hateful...
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