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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Turning Island Bush Into An Island Garden That Feeds Us
Except for 4 years in a small town in England, I’ve spent all my life in cities of varying sizes, in several different countries. Only 2 of the homes I’ve lived in had gardens and in neither had I attempted more than some experimental flower and vegetable plantings....
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What Island Social Media Isn’t Telling You
Most of us don't post day to day boring things on social media. We may post something new and exciting we'd like to share, a meme that expresses our opinions, or in some cases, we may even post if we're having an unusually bad day. What I'm trying to say is that...
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Why Are You Not At The Beach?
It's a common misconception of those who live elsewhere that we rock dwellers spend all of our free time lying on the beach under a palm tree with an ice-cold drink in our hand. To be perfectly honest, that is also exactly how I picture 90% of my free time, with the...
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Island Reads: Don’t Stop the Carnival
When I started Women Who Live on Rocks over 5 years ago, the point wasn't to discourage people from moving to an island. Quite the opposite. Island life charms my socks off and it's hard for me to picture ever not living on an island for any length of time. One of the...
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The 10 Stages of Hurricane Season
Before we permanently moved to our island, we’d been here “pre-Ivan.” We’ve since heard the Hurricane Ivan stories, so we knew from reports how devastating a hurricane could be. Since then, there have been a few times when we thought we might be in the path of a...
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