Carolina Beach, North Carolina has been a place of healing for me since I was 16 years old. That’s how old I was the first time my family went there for a vacation. It was about seven months after my brother died. My parents were hoping that getting away would help us all. It did. […]
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We All Fell In Love On Thursday
The summer before my senior year in high school, my family went on a vacation to Carolina Beach, North Carolina. Six months earlier, my three-year-old brother had died, and this was going to be an opportunity for my family to continue to heal and to start what would become a yearly tradition. For the past […]
Because it’s Sunday, dammit.
A couple weeks ago I declared that this upcoming school year was going to be the Year of No. A couple years ago I declared that I was going to stop working on Sundays and make sure I spent time recharging and connecting with my family. That Sunday thing kind of fell by the wayside. […]
Vacation Goals
We are officially settled into our vacation place. It’s a three bedroom condo about 1/2 mile from the beach in North Carolina, the same town I’ve been coming to every August since the summer before my senior year in high school. Every year, that is, except for the last five years when we couldn’t afford […]