I noticed a few photographs in my collection that seemed to say, “Are you looking at me?” So I put them together in this post. The first two contain attractive young people who were models in a portrait class I took… Read More ›
Sailing
My Day Began Early
At dawn I stole a kiss as the bus idled and diesel fumes crowded out the crisp NW air. Sue disappeared behind the idling beast but I could hear her pleasant greeting to the driver. In a few hours she… Read More ›
Traveling South By Boat –Part 4 (Coming Ashore)
From the bow Susan announced, in a concerned voice, “There’s a man on a boat ahead of us that just took off his shirt and started waving it. I think he’s in trouble.” We were in a sliver of a… Read More ›
Traveling South By Boat – Part 3
The skipper was below determining our anchorage for the night when the numbers on the depth gauge began to tumble. Elixir’s deep draw of seven feet four inches makes her especially stable in blue water but in the shallow, shoaling… Read More ›
Traveling South By Boat – Part 2
The skipper working at his desk outside my door and the bright sunlight piercing the portholes of my berth gently brought me to life. Even when a boat is tied securely to a dock with bow, stern and spring… Read More ›
Traveling South By Boat – Part One
Susan has the mind of a scientist, the slim physique of a woman who walks at lunch instead of gobbling trans fats, can turn dwindling food stores into a delicious dinner and is quick to help with the wet,… Read More ›
GRADUATIONS AND SAILBOAT RACES
Nothing quantifies the passage of time as clearly as watching a child grow up and it was the celebration of one of those adolescent milestones that brought us back to Virginia, our niece’s 8th grade graduation. In a few months… Read More ›
Staying Alive
We gently glide out of our berth in St. Thomas, the city lights on our port and starboard and the moon rising over the stern. A pleasant tropical breeze blows across my arms as I interlace my fingers behind my… Read More ›
Flip-Flops and Hot Tubs
This mornings sunrise from the middle of the Atlantic was a brief but brilliant display of colors and clouds. Before I could even ready my camera the salmon pink sky and clouds changed to orange then yellow and suddenly the… Read More ›
Split Croatia 5 July 2013
Six hours after leaving Zagreb Croatia the bus rolled to a stop at the edge of the Adriatic Sea. As I stepped off the bus I was immediately confronted by a line of women with signs reading, sobe, room… Read More ›
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