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Season of Love...and Oysters!
Unless you've been pulling a Rip Van Winkle the past several weeks, you're aware that we're deep in the Season of Love...and jewelry and chocolate...mostly chocolate...and schmaltzy cards and...oh, never mind. Anyway, now is also the season of oysters and oyster lovers, and that's a special kind of love indeed! As... Read More
From Snow to Shirt Sleeves
Never a dull moment, as they say. In my last blog installment I bemoaned a week-long stretch of gloomy, gray, chilly and fog-draped days that had settled like a wet blanket over the Outer Banks. Since then we've ridden a veritable weather rollercoaster. Only a few days ago I was bundled up like an Eskimo scraping snow... Read More
Arts and Crafts and Otters! Oh, My!
After a while you notice a certain pattern to Outer Banks life. First, Spring slowly blossoms and our season begins, gradually at first, with mostly weekend or daytrip visitors until warm days begin to occur more reliably. Then our Canadian friends show up to frolic in what, by any reasonable measure, is still a... Read More
Don't Get Down, Get Out and About
Recently, one of my friends enrolled at North Carolina State University as a full-time student at the ripe old age of 38. While many of us would be reluctant to exchange the comfortable routine of the workaday world for the uncertainty of being a "mature" college student in a sea of much younger peers, it is obvious... Read More
Outer Bankers Take Care of Their Own
I've always been impressed by the volunteer spirit of my fellow Outer Bankers. Poised as we are on the edge of the continent, subject to the whims of Mother Nature, several hours from the nearest metropolitan area and lacking the supportive infrastructure often found in larger communities, we take care of our own. The... Read More