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Go Local
Crab meat and avocado salad. Pan-fried lump crab cakes. Mahi-mahi ceviche. Hand-rolled yellow-fin sushi. Baked speckled trout with a parmesan crust. Shrimp and cheese grits. Sheepshead bites flash-fried in a rice-flour/beer batter. Man, my husband has got the seafood thing down. * The key to his seafood is his... Read More
Knowing How Good We've Got It
Don't worry, this is going to be a happy blog, but just for a minute let me be sad. * Images from Louisiana of pelicans and gulls smothered in oil, dying chicks, oily bird nests, goopy estuaries and frighteningly black seawater are seared into my brain. * Living in such a similar environment on the Outer Banks makes... Read More
Coming Home
Driving over the bridge to the banks and smelling the moist, salty air, seeing the ospreys soaring and the blue of the sound set against the tan and green of the marsh - and a glimpse of ocean in the distance -- is a magical feeling whether you've lived here your whole life or are visiting for the first time. * I just... Read More
Season Kickoffs
Here it is already, Memorial Day weekend, the big season kickoff in all its glory, the unofficial start to the summer season. * And the goings on befit the occasion. This is a week of kickoffs and launchings...The Lost Colony kicks off its 73rd season on Friday, May 28 at 8 p.m. If you haven't seen this show in a... Read More
What Am I Missing?
As you read this, I'll be living large in the City of Lights. That's right, Paris. I've headed off-island for a taste of international culture and pain au chocolat. I'm trading in my SUV for the Metro and my view of the Roanoke Sound for a view of the Seine... The only problem with my leaving the Outer Banks for the... Read More