Category: Dauphin Island

• Cycles of Life

  It’s been an interesting two weeks. Highs and lows, appointments and responsibilities. Nature and modern life colliding in a symphony of emotions. I was able to help with the Mobile Writers’ Guild Third Annual Tracy Hurley Memorial Writing Competition for middle and high school students in the area. It was labor intensive, but rewarding and […]

  Carrie Dalby

  May 7, 2014

  birthday, creativity, Dauphin Island, Fernando, friends, inspiration, Joyce Scarbrough, Joyce Sterling Scarbrough, kids, LIFE, Mobile Writers Guild, NATURE, WIP, WRITING

• Liebster Blog Award

  I was tagged/nominated by R.K. Grow, a fellow writer on Twitter @tolkien418, for a Liebster Award. Thank you! The Liebster is awarded to up-and-coming bloggers with less than 200 followers. The conditions that go with being nominated are: 1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog and link back to the blogger who […]

  Carrie Dalby

  February 11, 2013

  Anxiety, Aspergers, blog, blogging, BLOGS, books, children, CORRODED, CURRENT EVENTS, Dauphin Island, Fantabutitus, FORTITUDE, friends, Geeks, Israel Parker, iTunes, Joyce Scarbrough, Joyce Sterling Scarbrough, kindred spirits, Lee Ann Ward, LIFE, literature, Meleesa Swann, middle grade, MUSIC, Networking, nonfiction, novels, playlist, READING, soundtrack, Stephanie Lawton, Tamra Torero, teens, Twitter, WIP, WRITING

• Hurricanes and Fortitude

    Since the world is talking about Hurricane Isaac, I thought I’d post an excerpt from what I’m working on right now. FORTITUDE, set in 1898, is a story about sixteen-year-old Claire O’Farrell—a first generation Irish-American living on Dauphin Island, Alabama (which is currently without power and the only road to the bridge is flooded.) […]

  Carrie Dalby

  August 29, 2012

  beaches, blog, blogging, BLOGS, Claire O’Farrell, CURRENT EVENTS, Dauphin Island, FORTITUDE, historical, weather, WIP

• Two Years After: An Oil Spill Reflection

  Today is the second anniversary of the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Here are links to two blog posts I did about the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. http://authorcarriecox.com/2010/06/24/on-a-serious-note/ http://authorcarriecox.com/category/deep-water-horizon/ Just last month I finally ate at a local seafood restaurant. I’m still not 100% certain of the safety of the […]

  Carrie Dalby

  April 20, 2012

  Anxiety, beaches, birds, blog, blogging, BLOGS, children, CURRENT EVENTS, Dauphin Island, Deep Water Horizon, family, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Lower Alabama, Mobile, NATURE, oil spill, Pensacola Beach, spring, summer, travel, wildlife

• On a Serious Note

  A week and a half ago, this was the view from our hotel room (compliments of my big sister, booked weeks before the Deep Water Horizon explosion) on Pensacola Beach. Beautiful, except for a slight tea colored staining along the water line. My children and nephews played in the sand, well above possible contamination. And […]

  Carrie Dalby

  June 24, 2010

  beaches, children, Dauphin Island, Deep Water Horizon, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Lower Alabama, oil spill, Pensacola Beach, wildlife