I Love Hammocks

I bought a Jumbo Mayan hammock chair for my then 9-year-old daughter three years ago. After only one week, we found ourselves flipping a coin to see who gets to sit in it after dinner. I finally  broke down and bought another. It...

than lounging in a hammock with the slow, steady rocking lulling me to sleep with the sunshine warming my face and a salty breeze wafting over me.
And, of course, a repertoire of mellow music to serve as my soundtrack and lemonade to...

Thinking back on those days when we would gather up the hammocks and take them to the grape trees along the white sandy beaches with the aqua blue ocean slapping gently against the pristine shores of my home in Cayman Brac..Great and...

Like my story about mangoes, this goes back to my days of living on a Maui farm. My memories take me back to a yard full of several mango trees, one from shock we hung a tire swing, and two others supported a hammock. On warm afternoons...

I don't care so much for the traditional rope hammocks, but I love the cloth ones, those are really comfortable, and you could almost use them as a cheap bed to sleep on in hot climates. On the whole, though, I have always loved...

Last year after my uncle and I built our fire pit at my house, my mother and I had gone to Lowes to find things to decorate around it, or she did, I just went to carry everything as my sister and I usually get stuck doing. Well upon...

I love hanging in hammocks. I wish I had some trees in my yard to hang them too. I love going to the park in the summer time and finding 2 trees to hang one in to lay there and read a book. I also love to hang in one while...

A hammock is more than a place to hang out, it's a way of life. Being in a hammock reminds me of Mexico, and travel there. Many of the best hammocks are made in Mexico. With their stunning colors and often found in beachside bars and...

This summer my daughter and I took a road trip. Just us girls. It was kind of a right of passage thing as she was preparing to leave for college and I was preparing to have her leave.
We headed out with no real destination. Each day we...