Reminders for Traveling Islanders: Aviation Etiquette
Dear Fellow Islander: The very nature of living on an island means that we all look forward to our jaunts 'off-island' - and this means that we spend more than our fair share of time with layovers in one airport or another. Walking through MIA recently, I felt...
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Island Reads: Life on a Rock
Have you ever seen photos of or visited a tiny remote island and wondered what it would be like to actually live there, so far removed from society? Today's featured book, set on an Out Island in the Bahamas, may make you shy away from the very idea as you read how...
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It’s A Tourist Thing
Somewhere, in a land far far away, there lies a tiny little rock named Saipan in the western Pacific Ocean that takes way too many plane rides to get to and is crawling with pink cars everywhere. Didn't expect the pink car part, now did you? What can I say? It's a...
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Join Women Who Live on Rocks in The Bahamas in 2019
Do you want to join me and a group of island-loving women on Eleuthera this year for 5 days of island fun, creative collaboration, and soul-awakening yoga? I've just released the dates (May 18 - 23, 2019) for the next Women Who Live on Rocks retreat and I'm so excited...
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Why Christmas Doesn’t Really Work in the Tropics
Ho ho ho - it’s that time of the year again. Like everywhere else in the world, my island of Mauritius has gotten carried away in the commercial whirlwind that is the festive season. While I can assure you that I am not entirely against Christmas, I do believe that we...
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Island Ingenuity: Christmas Edition
'Twas three weeks before Christmas with family arriving, when I sought holiday décor to enjoy when not diving. All through the island, not a tree was in stock; the supplier had cancelled, to my open-mouthed shock. “No tree?!” I cried, and said to myself,...
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