Posts by Melissa McKay

Happy Spring, y’all!! I landed in Nashville two weeks ago, and this city decided to show me what I missed while I was away. Last Saturday, we woke up to 5” of snow and temps in the low 20s. The temperature went up to 50 the following day, so thankfully the snow didn’t stick around…

Guess what, y’all? I’m using my hotspot to connect to the internet. AGAIN. This time, cellular service is out and has been since Saturday afternoon; WiFi is down, and the apps on my phone are mostly useless. If you’ve wondered where my daily stories and sunset posts have been the last couple of days, they’re…

I’ve returned from my last trip to the Farmer’s Market. I’ll be here one more Monday, but I can’t justify buying more food when I have so much in the freezer to get rid of before I leave. I’m also mostly done with the bike, though I may ride into town a couple more times…

I don’t have anything exciting to report this week…except that my baby-child is officially a legal adult today. WHAT?! HOW?! Happy 21st birthday to my smart, caring, beautiful, talented, creative, and favorite daughter, Reagan. She has always been a shutterbug, but she is currently working towards a career in professional photography at MTSU. She recently…

It’s a stormy day here on the coast. The power and WiFi have been blinking off all morning, as I suspect they will throughout the day. I have towels underneath the doors and windows to soak up the rain that’s blowing in. There will be a lot of laundry to do once this storm moves…

I’m halfway through my stay. I realized after I published last week’s post that I didn’t give a followup on the car-trunk-seafood. I have eaten the shrimp in two different meals and lived to tell y’all about it. The first meal was salsa verde shrimp and rice and the other was coconut shrimp. Both were…

It’s hard to believe I’ve been here a whole month already. I’ve fallen into a routine. If it’s beautiful and sunny outside, I walk on the beach first thing in the morning, listening to an audiobook while searching for beach glass. I have breakfast then spend the rest of my morning writing in my journal.…

It has been a pretty uneventful week, which is just fine with me. The weather is glorious, though we tend to get some rough winds here on the beach every few days. It was stormy Saturday night, and the power blinked on and off a couple of times in the wee hours of morning. When…

Buenas tardes! I want to begin with an apology. While my Nashville friends endured temps in the teens and twenties last week, and several inches of snow, I was out here in the tropics complaining that things weren’t perfect enough. I sounded ungrateful for this wonderful opportunity I’ve been given to maintain my mental health.…

It’s a day late, but welcome to the Winter Sabbatical 2022 blog post series! If you saw my Facebook post last night, you know that things haven’t gone quite as smoothly as I’d hoped in Mexico this year. We are currently without WiFi, and God knows when it will be restored. This is an issue…