In one of his essays, Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) described a day he spent with a younger child. He said, “I found upon conversation with him, though he was a little noisy in his mirth, that the child had excellent parts, and was a great master of all learning on the other side of eight […]

As the construction of the Matagorda Ship Channel began back in 1962 to allow ocean-going vessels to travel from the Gulf of Mexico into Matagorda Bay, a small island started to be formed from all the sand and mud dredged up from the bay bottom. It didn’t take long for the new island 3 miles […]

Whistling Ducks, Heat And Tar Balls Greetings from the island everyone!  I hope that all of you are doing well and hanging in there with this brutal heat.  Being on my 24th year total on this barrier island, this is the driest and hottest summer I’ve experienced.  The dim light at the end of the […]

Cats. Some people love them, some actually despise the cute tiny little death machines, and in case you didn’t figure it out by this sentence alone, I am definitely in the camp of the former, not the latter. I guess it makes sense as when I was but a wee lad still ambulating on four […]

How often do we feel that situations are out of our control? Circumstances collide and leave us afraid that life is getting out of control! We often struggle with the feeling of lack and fight the feelings of helplessness and panic. The idea that we are “in control” is more an illusion than a fact! […]