On the Road in the 21st Century

The best road trips aren't planned, they just happen. Jack Kerouac's On the Road seems to just happen; he writes in an episodic, stream-of-consciousness burst of life. Kerouac is a [...]

By |2022-10-20T10:04:03-07:00October 20th, 2022|book recommendations, books, coming-of-age fiction, fictional memoir, on the road|Comments Off on On the Road in the 21st Century

Women Aboard!

Women have always been aboard ship. As passengers, girlfriends, and wives. As sailors, surgeons, nurses, helmsmen, and shipmasters. Women aboard — I got caught up in the history back in [...]

Sea Trials (or, How NOT to sail around the world)

Wendy Hinman is an adventurer, speaker and the award-winning author of two books, Tightwads on the Loose and Sea Trials; Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire. Tightwads [...]

By |2017-06-05T11:08:42-07:00June 5th, 2017|adventure, books, How We Write; a series of essays by guest authors, humor, memoir, nautical writing, ships and boats, writing and publishing|Comments Off on Sea Trials (or, How NOT to sail around the world)
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