From Seahorse Cove to Seahorse Shores to You.
Enjoy the Journey
Family Welcome
Apologies for the stock image! Looking forward to a holiday turkey dinner and roasting that resembles this. Fingers crossed for 2021!
Becoming Seahorse Shores
Why would we name a lake house in Wisconsin after a marine animal that technically cannot survive in fresh water? Easy. Seahorses are amazing. In Ancient Rome and Greece, the Seahorse was sacred to the god Poseidon (Neptune in Latin). Did you know? The water element embodied in Neptune and Poseidon rule emotion and intuition.…
July 1976
Before I get started: tonight is the eve before what will probably be one of the biggest events in American history for a very long time. But instead of trying to prognosticate on what will happen tomorrow, I’d like to turn to the summer of 1976. Coincidentally, I started writing this blog about a month…
Pick an Apple. Any Apple.
Apple picking has become a tradition in our family over the past 10 years. I’m so grateful that living in Greater Chicagoland has afforded us with the opportunity to visit some amazing apple orchards. Thanks goes to Aunt Amber. She’s been a driving force in getting us up early to drive an hour plus (almost…
Miss You Mom.
This was something Mom did right after the coffee was brewed. “It makes the coffee bitter if you let the grounds sit in the filter,” she used to say. I’m not convinced this is true, but what I do know is that it was a Small Act of Kindness (SAOK). For the time Mom lived…
We start in the middle. Again.
Like all good Romantic [that’s with a capital “R” as in Romanticism (1800 – 1850)] stories begin in the middle, they back up, for a good start, to the beginning. This blog has been a work in progress in my brain since January 2019. In the fall of 2018, my husband, Warren, found an idyllic…
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