Ghost Ships
Westering Maybe we all exist at the same time a palimpsest our lives, patterns of light a watery pastiche of sensations and perceptions i can't see you but i feel [...]
Best Bios about 18th & 19th century crossdressers
As the author of the historical novel Star-Crossed, a title that plays on the practice of cross-dressing, I was asked by Ben Fox, founder of Shepherd.com to share my five [...]
Books that guided and inspired Patricia MacPherson
Thanks to Lisa Goodwin, the Women who Sail New England and the Between the Lines Book Club for inviting me to your discussion of The Surgeon's Mate! As promised, here [...]
Women Who Sail New England
This evening I've been invited to join Lisa Goodwin and Women Who Sail New England who will be discussing Surgeon's Mate; the second novel in Patricia MacPherson's Nautical Adventures. Looking [...]
Close Encounters of the Whale Kind
Sometimes you're favored with fair wind and following seas, and sometimes you're blessed with no wind and a broken engine. Continued: The area known as Penguin Bank, south of [...]
Sea Voyages Gone Badly
Don't get on that ship! The Bounty, Essex, Pequod, Titanic, Andrea Gail, Sea Wind, Lucky Dragon -- these are names of doomed ships, the epitome of sea voyages gone badly. [...]
In Utero
New moon over the ocean embryo low deep in the belly of the sky i feel your heartbeat in the tide i will soon die but you my ancient orb [...]
New Year’s Eve gluttony; a poem
Say farewell to this stale old year sweet though she was at one time marvelous crunchy miracles mixed like crackerjacks with hard kernels of disappointment bad for the teeth I [...]
At the edge of an airplane dooor
At the edge of an airplane door ready to let go I can feel my whole life like a piece of quartz in my hand lsc I've found nothing [...]