Hidden Rules

Tonight I was going through some photographs that I took of the kids in our program recently, because Natalie, our marketing officer, has been bugging me for new ones. The organization I work for (and am the unofficial photographer of) holds weekend summer camps in the Everglades for foster kids where our coordinators teach basic [...]

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Miami Evenings in August

After work tonight, my friend Natalie and I went to the pool, went swimming, read our books (me The Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock; her Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows…which she picked off of my bookshelf when she was staying with me. That’s when I knew we were going to be good friends.), and [...]

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Tropical Storm Bonnie

Today when I got home from work, I stopped to chat with the concierge on my way to the elevator. She is the sweetest lady, she always calls me “honey” and keeps an eye out for my packages so that I don’t have to wait two weeks for security to call and let me know [...]

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Storm Season Is Officially Here

Well, storm season in Florida has officially begun! I took this photograph off my back deck. Remember this?  I’m getting much better at my lightning photography skills, if I do say so myself!  At first, I wound up taking forty thousand photographs because, um, it’s hard to predict lightning. It would be much more convenient [...]

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Trying

This little boy, Sebastian, comes to Maui’s StreetWaves surfing lessons every Saturday. Erica goes every Saturday, and somehow managed to wrangle most of us at Educate Tomorrow into going with her. I don’t know how – because you know we all have better things to do than swim, surf, and play with little kids in [...]

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The Everglades, Part IV: Kayaking (And Crocodiles…)

Back in the boat after lunchtime, we motored up some canals so that we could take the kayaks out. As you can see, it was truly beautiful! In doing research for this post, I discovered this awesome article about the ecosystems of the Everglades.  It talks about mangrove swamps and all the other types of [...]

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The Everglades, Part II: The Boat

Okay, first of all, I’m sorry I haven’t been updating as often as I usually do. While I have been busy lately, I also recently started reading The Pillars of the Earth and it is so engrossing that I find that I am reluctant to put it down to do anything! My apartment is getting [...]

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Can You Guess What’s Coming?

Tomorrow, I will do the first post in a series about my trip to the Everglades! I haven’t had a chance to get through all of the photographs yet because there was just so much to see at the Everglades  that I took way too many pictures. (Well, that’s a lie – I don’t think [...]

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Road trip!

This afternoon we are all leaving to go to Key West for the weekend! I can’t wait – the furthest south I have been since I got to Florida was to Key Largo…camping…while it poured buckets of rain…and I was sick, exhausted and wound up sleeping in my car…so the battery died…and we had to [...]

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Steps

In so many ways, since I have moved to Florida I feel like a different person.  Part of it, I think, is because everything and everyone around me is so completely different from everything I have ever known before. The sounds are different, the smells are different…even the air itself is different. Heavier, thicker, and [...]

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