Tag: st thomas
member name: Frank Z.
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January 25, 2008 08:19 AM EST --
The siren's wail is a rare sound on our street, rare and exciting. Early this morning it howls through each of the tiny front windows of my house as it speeds past, heading for the hill. . . . more
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June 22, 2007 05:12 PM EDT --
Is that fog? I wonder when I lift my head from sleep this morning and look out the gloomy window that is normally bright with vibrant sun. Nah, can't be. There’s no fog in the Caribbean.
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July 01, 2007 02:10 PM EDT --
It's one of the most visited tourist spots on St. Thomas, but I'd never been there. It wasn't the Sky Ride itself in those terrifying cable cars that scared me off. You can also . . . more
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July 22, 2007 12:11 PM EDT --
It's early in the morning and quiet here in England. I'm up alone, walking downstairs to the living room to begin this first post abroad. My internal clock seems to take longer than . . . more
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August 17, 2007 04:52 AM EDT --
My inbox was chock full of emails today from my friends down in St. Thomas. Some alarming, others simply informational in a parental, advisory sort of way. I find it interesting to see how . . . more
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January 18, 2008 03:42 PM EST --
I don't pretend to be a crusty sailor whose sea legs wobble on solid ground and whose sun-bleached eyes are fixed on the horizon in a faraway stare whenever four walls and the confines of civilization . . . more
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March 08, 2008 10:10 AM EST --
"I out by Smeet B. I onna straight concrete road all da way up. By da domino. Da gas station. May-ka leff onna road. Straight as she go to Bowsky Auto. . . . more
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July 09, 2007 08:48 AM EDT --
Vessup Bay near my home grows emptier and emptier. It seems that each day another boat pulls up anchor casts off its mooring, heading to the safety of a boatyard or sailing South to the single-digit . . . more
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August 29, 2007 01:25 PM EDT --
We're in Edinburgh and I'm sick. Not deathly ill, of course, nothing like that. More like a common cold with aspirations to become the flu. It's late August, just a few days . . . more
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November 14, 2007 01:01 PM EST --
I see Puerto Rico through the oval eye of the plane window, the only lights in the darkened sea spread out below us. After a thousand miles of inky night, it looks large enough to be a continent, . . . more
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December 31, 2007 12:24 PM EST --
Some of the houses on Aveneda Oriente still have a necklace or two of Christmas lights on their faces, and a couple have left their cardboard cutouts of Santa and his sleigh hammered into the laps of . . . more
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April 03, 2008 02:00 PM EDT --
What do you do with folks who are on island only for a single day? Hard call. It depends on what they're up for. By the look of Deanne, who is overweight and limping in a . . . more
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June 18, 2007 02:37 PM EDT --
Gawd! It was exciting: packing the collected essentials of our years together and shipping them in a container to St. Thomas; selling off the rest of our life in a garage sale; stuffing the Jeep . . . more
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July 14, 2007 11:13 AM EDT --
Mary and I made a few friends at Lou's Motor Court. Even at five years old, though, I knew it was the kind of place you stayed in for a short time because you had nowhere else to go. We were . . . more
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June 11, 2007 01:54 PM EDT --
The sun comes up over my deck on the east side of the island. It comes up fast here in the Caribbean, close to the equator. It sets just as fast. . . . more
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July 16, 2007 06:40 AM EDT --
Aveneda Oriente.
When I first heard those two words coming out of my mother's mouth, I thought she might be going crazy, speaking in tongues or something. What could they possibly mean?
She . . . more
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November 03, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
"Not caw , but carrrr ," she says sweetly, just a tad perturbed by my fourth or fifth mispronunciation.
"Now try saying home once more, but this time concentrate on the big, hard . . . more
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July 05, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
When was the last time you shopped at K-Mart? I don’t mean to pick up a prescription or buy some breath mints on your way out to a Friday night. I mean to do the comprehensive family shopping from . . . more
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