When my plane takes off Thursday morning I will have spent three months of my life on this island. Three months of working, learning, playing, and loving. I don’t know how long you have to spend in a place to have “lived” there, but I do feel like I’m leaving a life and a home, albeit…

The Botanical Park was one of the few things left on my list of “must do’s before departure.” It was Mark’s day off and he and Kirsten and Adrian were very kind to humor me with a visit there en route to our old favorite, Rum Point.  Of course the day we decided to take our…

The Cayman turtle farm, Boatswain’s Beach, is something I’ve been dying to do since I first came to Cayman for spring break. Mark was never interested since he said he got to “swim with wild turtles all the time.” But like a grubby handed child, I wanted to touch them. So when Kirsten came to town and I…

In just a few months, I had a lot of family in town. My mom came for a week. My dad and sister came for a weekend. And finally, my dear cousin Kirsten and her husband came down for a final summer fling. One of my cousin Kirsten and her husband Adrian’s reasons for coming to…

My dad has sent me a postcard once a month or so for as long as I can remember, from Arizona to Chile. I have every one saved in a gray box in my room at my home and I’m sure they are the route of my postcard sending habit. For this reason I knew my…

When I heard about the Vivendi Cabaret in Cayman, I knew I had to save it for when my dad and sister were here. My sister is a musical theatre major and they both are theatre geeks so I knew it would be interesting. I also knew it would be awesomely good or awesomely bad, and…