The oldest city in the U.S., a college, a fort, and another fort
> We drove down a barrier island to a place that really didn’t feel like America. St. Augustine, founded in 1565, is the oldest port in the U.S. ...
Author: Heather Paige Hunt
The Underbelly of Ubiquity
The days of my pumpkin spiced lattes are dwindling. The plump pumpkins that lined the grocers’ windows have been replaced with poignant poinsettias and will soo...
>”Don’t Feed the Alligators.”
What a welcoming sign What an interesting area. As I drove through Seminole Park, I felt like Christopher Reeves felt in “Somewhere in Time” when he crossed fro...
Beach this Morning
Morning sun beams snuck between illuminated clouds and made the water and the mist bright white. I could not see more than 200 yards down the stretch because of...
>My husband is wise.
> “Chris, thank you for understanding me and validating me. Sometimes I think you understand me better than I do myself.” Some people get in fights and doubl...
>English is ridiculous.
>The barren bear bared her beard then barely bit the board that the bored boar bore.
Temporarily Floridian
> Florida is warm and humid. Not that I expected it to be any different. Glad it’s not hurricane season. Jaguars football game last week. Woohoo. Cast...
Dormant Sugar Maples to Vivacious Palm Trees
Chris and I fell asleep to the Christmas-tree-topper Chrysler building standing outside Brian’s window at 37th and Lexington. I have labeled his 8...
>the head bone is connected to the ankle bone.
>”head>heart>feet>steps>walk” Stuff flows into our ears and eyes then infiltrates our minds and hearts. It is unlikely ...
Zombies Perform Thriller in Market Square
>Every Halloween, a parade of wowingly costumed people marches through old downtown Portsmouth. Seriously, these costumes are ridiculous and metic...
Nearly November
I have lived in Portsmouth since June. It is nearly November. And I am still enchanted with this place. It’s all brick and wood and books. Old bridges, ol...
So my neighbor is a lobsterman.
>So last night, Iwas anticipating cooking chicken when the door bell rang. It was our lobsterman neighbor, Jeff, holding two live lobsters that he had caught...
rainy rucky rugby and the american revolution
>And today, Chris played a rugby game in Boston. Do you know the history of rugby? It started in a soccer match at Rugby Boarding School in England in 1823. ...
>To Spice Cider (and a good lookin man)
>Buy cider from your local grocerPour desired amount into sauce panThrow in two cinnamon sticksand a palms worth of whole clovesHeat to a simmer SO GOOD! Do ...
Harvest Festival and other festivities
> Saturday Chris and I and two of our New Yorker friends went to a Harvest Festival in Old York Village. People get so much more into the seasons up here- it...
mud on the tires
We drove the truck down a dirty dirt/rock road in the mountains for several miles at 40 mins till dusk. We were feeling pretty darn adventurous. We parked by a ...
rock climbing>hiking>log cabin
>I top rope climbed a 35 ft. rock! We drove down this backwood, potholed, dirt road then hiked a big hill to this sweet wall, anchored in, and climbed a few ...
>Can you tell I like my husband?
>Chris gets back tomorrow. He left last Thursday to sail the boat down to Florida for renovations. When he was leaving, I watched them launch the boat from a...
October II: Pumpkin
I had to buy pumpkins. So I stopped at a 300 year old farm-orchard called Emery and poured myself a $.50 cider then scouted the patch. This is a bonified pumpki...
October I
I climbed an aspen tree. The sun shone through the bright yellow leaves and made me feel like Glinda in the middle of a glowing bubble. My favorites are the sug...
>The Sailor is not sailing. You wanna know why? Cus he’s home!
>I’m looking at Chris right now. He sitting on our couch full of football watching men for whom he made burgers and I made sweet tea, homemade nachos, ...
Expeditionary visit with mom
>1) We went to the Tulluride by the Sea film festival at thein Portsmouth. Neat old theater. We saw Coco Avant Chanel, a very good indep. French film starrin...
>cleaning the stove
>A clean stove is like a guitar that hasn’t been restrung in 3 years. Either is never used or it is broken. My stove was dirty. My guitar does not need...
Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park
>A fellow Aggie-Coast Guard wife-temp. Mainer and I drove to Bar Harbor (adorable) and Acadia (wowingly georgeous) for a day trip. Acadia is where those ninc...
>on modernity
>”w/ mechanistic and scientific views of the universe gaining hegemony & analytical minds swearing unyielding antipathy toward any invincible myste...
Nubble Lighthouse
>Earlier today, when I was “returning” from York School Dept, I accidentally turned north instead of south. oops. I figured this out when i saw N...