GRAND-BABY WATCH

GRAND-BABY WATCH

But most of all, up there in the attic, I felt a bittersweet, pull-at-my-heart tenderness, being so close to the tangible reminders of my children's childhood.  I was caught up in the midst of a time gone by, which seemed like yesterday, but that I knew could never come back.  Time had marched on.  I had grown older...

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A TREEHOUSE, A RUM SHACK, AND BARBADOS BLISS

A TREEHOUSE, A RUM SHACK, AND BARBADOS BLISS

We bought fresh fruit from roadside stalls, ate lunch along the cliffs, and marveled at the surfers riding giant turquoise waves.  "Ghost roads" led us through abandoned sugar cane fields.  Then, one afternoon Duncan and I found ourselves helplessly lost, and we ended up in a spot we'll never forget.  It was traveler nirvana...

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