That stems from our kind of island life, our pace of the way we live.
As the wind started to whip around our Long Island home, my husband Michael and I fell into our typical roles when it comes to threat anticipation: I believed that the sky was falling while Michael believed that nothing serious was going to happen.
We have to make our island safe and we wish that the sea will become tranquil.
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But it is probably fair to say that our island nation is somehow coping in difficult times.
On the one hand, we obsess about our island sinking under the sheer weight of illegal immigrants.
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He took great pride in his Irish heritage and he cared deeply about peace on our island.
We hope our island returns to a place of tranquility once the steel monster out there is towed away.
Our island fortunately had cliffs toward the sea where the 20-25 foot wave hit and it did come up on the island.
Speaking at the Conservative party conference last October, Mr Gove said the current approach to history in schools "denies children the opportunity to hear our island story".
We have been for over 300 years loyal to the British Crown, our island was used during the time that Britain was developing its trading links with the Far East.
Although the billboards lining the streets continue to paint the United States as Goliath wanting to crush little David who represents our island, for an increasing number of people the metaphor doesn't play out that way.
We stop monitoring our watches and our email accounts, and relax into an island pace of life all but unchanged for centuries.
"Our beautiful island has many varied and distinct landmarks to choose from, " said Selwyn Williams.
Fine, say the islanders: the best way to conserve our fragile island is for you to stay away from it.
He will also be under pressure to reach out to Turkish Cypriots in the north of the island, our correspondent says.
For some, the horrifying event in Woolwich this week is another reason to question the diversity of culture and ideas in our little island nation.
We lost power in our Long Island home for less than a week, suffered no property damage, and emerged from the storm with life and limb intact.
The last census indicated that there are about 1.1 million people in Cyprus, or just a little more population than Rhode Island ( our 43rd most populous state).
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All I want to do is get to the island and start our life together as a family.
Late that same afternoon, I drove down to the Long Island Sound area in our Connecticut town and could clearly see the smoke some 50 miles away.
In this way, our center is like an island of sanity, they live and work together, respect each other.
"In another 50 or maybe 100 years' time those vines may still be alive and those may be the only living monuments of the times of our great leaders on the island, " said Mr Jonker.
The great picture attached shows my brother at Windows of the World looking out over the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the same site our grandparents viewed as they entered this great country 80 years ago.
By the same token the thirty-year hiatus in construction of new nuclear plants following Three Mile Island limited another important component of our energy mix and reduced our current options.
Almost everyone leaps at the chance to go ashore at our first stop, King George Island, to climb a windswept 1, 000-foot incline whose hard crust of snow cracks on contact, sinking you to your knees every other step.
Even before we have laid down our bags, however, the little island has begun to weave its spell.
We have more than 80 employees spread over our 20-acre facility on Long Island, N.
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Six months later our forces were withdrawn, and the island remains a hellhole. n The President tried to appease North Korea into giving up its nuclear weapons program.
Several of our fellow tourists on Po Poda (the island we were on) were seriously injured, when either boats fell on them or flotsam in the water hit them.
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