The days are short so we just went for a ride to Otter Pond not far away from the end of our road. Practicing Swan Lake on scooters. The ducks scooted but the swans approached. No crossbows were aimed instead bread was offered. But the seagulls began swooping in like minions of a sorcerer. The swans […]
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Every five seconds the light from Montauk Point Lighthouse reaches ships as far as 19 nautical miles away. A beacon from the eastern tip of New York’s Long Island signaling to those at sea they’re near a dock or a bay. I went there with my children. They played amongst the lighthouse shadows, memorials and paths. While the
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We were on the road heading South and images and thoughts about history, art, hanging moss trees, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and gourmet meals filled my head…yet…what was I going to do on a visit to Savannah with kids? Established in 1733, this city in the Southern State of Georgia, with
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Lollipops, dolphins and ghosts were all I needed for a walk with kids in Savannah. At nighttime open-topped hearses cruise the streets on ghost tours. This is the Southern city known as ‘The Most Haunted in America.’ This is the city in the state of Georgia that was the backdrop for Midnight in the Garden
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It’s called the New Forest but it’s ancient and magical to visit with kids. When I was young, I spent weekends and many holidays sailing in the waters off its shore. My father was a keen sailor so we kept our boat in Lymington, a Georgian market town on the southern edge of the New
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My son is wild about snakes. I’m the opposite. His continual requests for a real snake as a pet are turned down by me. But Theo is thrilled as in this past week alone he has held a real snake twice. Yesterday he held a corn snake at a small zoo near his grandparents’ home
