Lessons Learned | Women Who Live On Rocks

How Islanders Prepare to be Disappointed

If there's one thing you learn after any time spent living on an island, it's that things are best not left up to chance. Murphy's is law of the land here. If something can go wrong, it will go wrong - often in frustratingly bizarre, comical (usually only in...

I’ll Take the Case

by Chrissann Nickel

Life in the islands has managed to instill some embarrassing hoarding tendencies in me. I never used to feel the need to stockpile everyday items, but now that I know they're not available at the ready should I run out, I can't help but buy things like shave cream in...

Island Girl Problems: Hand Washing in the Caribbean

by Claytine Nisbett

Though I currently live on the island of Montserrat, my first destination after I left New York (where I spent most of my life) was Antigua, the island of my birth. Shortly after I got there, I was met with a conundrum: laundromats were not on almost every street...

Things You Will Have to “Get Over” to Live on an Island

by Tori Chriestenson

When you decide to move to an island, it's important to your happiness - and therefore, survival - that you become accustomed to some less than desirable aspects of daily life. Here are just a few potential obstacles to your island serenity that you will need to...

Easter Lockdown on the Rock

by Mariah Moyle

2014 was the first Easter I spent in the "civilized" Bahamian world. The previous Easter holidays throughout my island tenure were spent either in Miami or on some far-fetched remote island where I had no idea what was going on in the world of commerce. Though last...

Sucking Air & Other Amusing Island Expressions

by Baldrick

It's 8:04 and the entire staff has congregated under the garage, sheltering from the much needed downpour. Before there was any real management on the island, when things were a little slack, we'd have all gone home, for no one wants to work in the rain. There are...