If you're wondering where all the ninja are these days, I can tell you. They're hiding within the bodies of people you'd never suspect, such as your next door neighbor.

Our island has a very high concentration of modern ninja, whom I will define as people who do things the ninjutsu way: by stealth. The value of stealth is something I've learned only since I moved to this small island. I encourage you to uncover your inner ninja too.

My education in island ninjutsu started when my husband bought a third boat, a 44-foot sailboat. While our other two boats are moored in the small port in front of our house, this bigger boat needed a bigger port. The island happens to have such a port, very underutilized, which was budgeted for during the bubble era and was finally built 17 years later, after the island no longer needed it. The port, now called the "new port," only has a few boats in it.