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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
John Nichol, mariner and memoirist.
John Nichol, mariner. I would have liked to have known him. Re-reading his episodic memoir (I first read it at sea on a Pacific voyage - the same waters he [...]
Memoirs of Robert Hay
More fiction has been written about naval officers aboard British warships during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, I would guess, than any other single period in history. The protagonist is [...]
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 [...]
Award-winning manuscript to be published 20 years later
Twenty years ago I wrote a novel, one of my first, and entered it in the 1996 Maui Writers Conference Contest -- where producer/director/actor Ron Howard would be the featured [...]
How We Write: Getting published – in a science journal
a memoir by Martin Evans "Publish or perish!". The warning is more urgent in today's world of science research than when it was first used in the nineteen-thirties. A young [...]
The night Editor-in-Chief Myrna Blyth taught me to pitch…
Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman. That was the slogan of Ladies Home Journal, iconic women’s magazine which after 131 years has published its last regular monthly edition. In [...]