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Books, Cats, and Adventures in Parking
I started working at E. Shaver, Bookseller about four weeks ago. It’s a quirky, fabulous, independent bookstore in Savannah’s historic district. The bookstore has been around since 1975, though the building that houses it is from 1842. E. Shaver has rooms of books separated by odd steps and doorways with wide moldings. There is a…
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Unmoored
There has been a lot of boat imagery in my life lately. A few days ago, there were actual boats, at Community Boating, a sailing school on the Charles River in Boston. I went to pay homage to my father. He was a sailor and a teacher at Community Boating and he died a year…
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Birthday Dolphins and Unexpected Rescues
Peach called, “Watch out!” A wall of mud and water arced over the skipper’s head and sluiced over the three of us in the bow of her boat. “Well,” I thought, “this day is not turning out how I expected. Not at all.” We had left the dock at the Fort McAllister Marina at 8:30…
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Beguiled: The Magic of the Marsh
This is a time of tremendous change and excitement for me. I’m leaving New England to move to Savannah, Georgia. I seek warmth, and water, and respite from the grueling winters that have become harder and harder to endure over the last 18 years. I discovered Savannah this past winter. It didn’t take long for…
Dolphin Tales and Spoonbill Trails
Love Notes to the Georgia Coast
Dolphin Tales and Spoonbill Trails 