Posts Tagged: 2016

Toasting Nantucket

16 May 2016 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , , , , , | Be the first to comment here.

. Who could possibly forget that heart stopping scene from the 1942 classic Casablanca when Humphrey Bogart has to break it to the stunningly beautiful Ingrid Bergman that he’s putting her on a plane without him. Even if you’re not a hopeless romantic like me, you can’t help by sigh a little as he reminds […]

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Fired Up Nantucket Style

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

Remember that scene from the movie The Blind Side where Sandra Bullock, starring as the chic, but determined, helicopter mom Leigh Anne, interrupts the football practice to help “fire up” foster son Michael? When he immediately responds to her “coaching” and starts tearing up the football field, the befuddled coach Burt slides on to the […]

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In Her Shoes On Nantucket

01 Jul 2014 by shellie in category Shellie's Blog and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Be the first to comment here.

In her bestselling novel “In Her Shoes,” author Jennifer Weiner’s character Sydelle gives readers a glimpse into her past when she explains “you don’t know what it was like to live in this house…never being able to put a foot right.” It reminds us that we truly never know what someone else is going through […]

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Family Affair

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

For those of us in the Baby Boomer generation and beyond, the phrase “Family Affair” brings to mind the 1960’s sitcom of the same name.  The dashing and debonair Uncle Bill is charged with raising his brother’s three young children. A daunting task for a successful corporate bachelor, manageable only with the assistance of his “right […]

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