Category: Deep Water Horizon

• 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

• Turning a New Page in Life

  My somber previous post has scared me away from blogging. But there’s now a (leaky) cap on the gushing BP oil well, so that’s a bit of an improvement. Enough said, there isn’t much Pollyanna in me about that issue. But here is a link to a haunting song by Mithril, inspired by the oil […]

  Carrie Dalby

  July 20, 2010

  autism, banned books, Deep Water Horizon, homeschooling, kids, Laurie Halse Anderson, Mithril, poetry, READING, WFMAD, WRITING

• 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