Posts Tagged: 2015

Cat Nap On Nantucket

07 Sep 2015 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , | Be the first to comment here.

 …. Inspirational author and speaker Martha Beck provided some encouraging food for thought when she said, “Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.” For many of the visitors and seasonal residents of Nantucket this mantra is what summer is all about…the island is the […]

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Le Petite

30 Jul 2013 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Be the first to comment here.

Last week, as the news stations flooded our television screens and mobile devices with gloom and doom stories of crash landed airplanes and politicians behaving badly we found a glimmer of hope as word came across the ticker that a royal bundle of joy would soon arrive on the scene. Even as we went about […]

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Snow Daze

29 Jan 2013 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Be the first to comment here.

Photo courtesy of Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce  Click on photo for winterland video by Kristen Kellogg   As a kid growing up in a small Iowa farm community, winter was one of my favorite seasons. There is just nothing like a good Midwest blizzard to modify the day’s plans. My favorite part of any […]

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Anchored

06 Nov 2012 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Be the first to comment here.

           Click photo to view storm video by Kristen Kellogg Nantucket was one very lucky little island last week as Hurricane Sandy unleashed its wrath on the entire Northeast. Island residents nibbled their fingernails as they waited and watched for news of the direction and intensity of the storm. When the sky […]

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Kidding Around

23 Oct 2012 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , with 1 comment

There’s nothing like a group of enthusiastic, energized school kids to put a smile on your face and remind you to pause for a moment and view the world through their lens. The exuberant group of kids in the photo above were gathered on the steps of the Pacific National Bank just outside my office […]

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Legacy

10 Sep 2012 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Be the first to comment here.

Billy Graham once said, “The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives.” I was thinking about those words last weekend when our son Drew and his family were here for a visit. Now that my husband Dan and I live on the island year round, we […]

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Gratitude

22 Nov 2011 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , , , | Be the first to comment here.

With temperatures in the high 50′s and low 60′s these past few weeks, it’s impossible to believe Thanksgiving is already upon us. It seems like just yesterday we were winding down our beach days. I hear it everywhere I go – time is flying by. As a kid, I always heard my grandmother say that […]

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Who Let The Dogs Out?

01 Nov 2011 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , , , , | Be the first to comment here.

Nantucket isn’t just for 2-legged tourists and residents. Animals of all kinds love the wide variety of pet-friendly activities, temperate climate and numerous places to explore. Dogs in particular seem to delight in their Nantucket lifestyle. It’s not unusual to see Jack lying alongside a Main Street bench while his master slips into one of the […]

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Papa’s Ocean

20 Sep 2011 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Be the first to comment here.

Peter Pan says if growing up means it would be beneath his dignity to climb a tree, then he refuses to ever grow up. One of the most amazing things about Nantucket is it brings out the child in all of us. I had the opportunity last week to experience Nantucket through the eyes of […]

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Just Fishin’

06 Sep 2011 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , , , | Be the first to comment here.

Click here or photo above to listen to Trace Adkins new hit “Just Fishin” In his newest hit single, “Just Fishin” Trace Adkins tugs on every daddy’s heart as he reminds us that spending time on the shoreline with our kids, a line in the water, is about more than just catching a fish. These […]

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