One writer’s view of St. John, 11 weeks after Hurricane Irma. At first it all seems almost normal. After two months of waiting, of searching for clues, of seeing the pictures of the devastation and the signs of renewal, of …
Becky Ward will be home on St. John for Thanksgiving, but it’s a homecoming tinged with heartache. Though she, her partner, Patrick Rooney, and their two-year-old daughter, Hazel, are returning, Patrick’s 10-year-old son, Jack, is staying behind in Virginia where …
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Originally published in The Philadelphia Inquirer October 12, 2017 Horton…heard it again! Just a very faint yelp As if some tiny person were calling for help. from Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss I can’t tell you what it …
Thanks to DJ Questlove (from The Roots and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) who presided over the music for six hours at the Brooklyn Bowl in NYC this weekend to raise money for Hurricane Irma relief on St. John. …
Let’s start with the color of the water. This is really what it looks like. No filter, no special effects. Just a snapshot on a regular old phone camera. Those blues and greens are real. We are celebrating the 100th …
Originally published in the St. John Sun Times In the December issue of Caribbean Travel & Life there is an ad for the magazine depicting a barefoot Santa Claus in shades, sack full of gifts on his back, stepping off a …
Originally published in the St. John Sun Times In typical island fashion, it was hard to tell when the old year ended and the new one began. The party was at Skinny Legs in Coral Bay where the unadvertised festivities (New …
Originally published in the St. John Sun Times We are now hoping to arrive by Thanksgiving. The boat is ready. After spending two months in the yard in Maine, the 70-foot Sonny is docked in Newport, Rhode Island, freshly painted and …
A Tribute to St. John Icon Pirate Bill CORAL BAY, U.S. Virgin Islands — Pirates, I have learned since moving to St. John, have discriminating taste in beer. Grog, the watered-down rum that was the aqua vitae of all the seventeenth century …
“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air’s salubrity.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson