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 [...]
Horizon
Horizon a page blank with possibility what are you waiting for? Horizon the line where possible and impossible collide photo taken December 25, 2021 on the island of Hawaiipoem [...]
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 [...]
Seconds from Death; The Evolution of Sport Skydiving in America
Seconds from Death - a memoir and a documentary film Photo memory of a balloon jump Bob and I made in Steamboat Springs, in 1987, on a cold, still morning [...]
Altitude is your friend
In 1981 I made my first skydive, a static line deployment at Skies West, a sport skydiving center in Loveland, Colorado. That experience radically changed my life in ways [...]