by Robin | Jul 14, 2009 | Fourth of July, Holidays, Kids, Nostalgia, Personal, Photos
This is exactly the picture I was trying to capture, timed perfectly with the slip & slider in the background! I’ve always had a soft place for pinwheels…I don’t know if its their twirly spin or color blur, but their simplicity registers...
by Robin | Jul 2, 2009 | Antigua, Favorite things, Kiawah Island, Nostalgia, Personal, Photos, Thematic Photographic, Weather
When I was a little girl, I had fizzy affection for all things "mini"–Hershey's chocolate bars and stuffed animals and oddly enough, office supplies. I'm convinced whoever invented Polly Pockets and Littlest Pet Shop toys was...
by Robin | Jun 15, 2009 | Family, Favorite things, Food and Drink, Kids, Life Philosophy, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Parenting, Personal, Southern, y'all
Blood and marriage are reason enough to gather on the hottest day of the year to celebrate family, for no other reason than that. It's the Southern Way. On a canvas of conversation broad-stroked with laughter, the fizzy flit of flies joins a threatening...
by Robin | May 25, 2009 | Food and Drink, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Parenting, Personal
1) If I could make the canyon leap from coffee with cream and sugar to unadulterated black, I think I could drink it with dessert (or donuts or anything sweet). Now it's so sugared and creamed it IS dessert. a) ...
by Robin | May 19, 2009 | Favorite things, Nostalgia, Personal, Wordless Wednesday
Pansies always make me think of my grandmother–a master Bridge player, cook, knitter, imagination weaver…and gardener. The living gateway to her garden was a row of mature boxwoods, edged to the right and left with azaleas and hydrangeas, and the...
by Robin | Apr 17, 2009 | Family, Favorite things, Food and Drink, Kids, Life Philosophy, Mom stuff, Nostalgia, Personal, Photos
Through a kaleidoscopic lens of time past, I can see their aura of expectancy and certainty: they had big dreams, those two, and they were going to strike gold on the corner of Milledge and Woodlawn. Reason never wins an argument with...