Author: Margaret Evans

Remember that old comedy, “Heaven Can Wait”? It came from the quirky movie team of Warren Beatty and Buck Henry in 1978. Beatty starred as a pro football player, routed to heaven prematurely after a bicycle accident by an “over-anxious guardian angel” (Henry) on his first assignment. Jimmy Carter was president back then, gas cost about 70 cents a gallon, and I finally escaped from the grad school rat race, apparently thanks to a few guardian angels of my own and enough caffeine to float a battleship. Yeah, the ribs were really good in Chicago and we liked watching the usually hapless Cubs and White Sox but it was a tough, financially challenged period with too much bike riding on busy streets and counting the loose change in my pockets at lunch time.

The First Annual Bridges Block Party was a smashing success! A good time was had by all, money was raised for Bridges Charter School, and a group of high school students from Goose Creek, SC, swept the Shrimp & Grits competition. That’s right, Stratford High School won both the official judges’ award AND the People’s Choice Award for their Classic Charleston Breakfast Shrimp. (See recipe below.)

Marine WormsOccasionally on a kayak tour, the dolphin are feeding elsewhere, the eagles are perched just out of sight, and the blue crabs refuse to let themselves be caught in the cast-net. So when these super-stars of the salt marsh are nowhere to be found, I start to look for some of the supporting actors – our marine worms.