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St. Nicholas Abbey, Barbados

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T12:31:45-07:00March 7th, 2012|Categories: history, travel|Tags: Barbados Bound, Nicholas Abbey, Star-Crossed|

The great house came into view, shabby and overgrown, yet[...]

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A ballad of a cross-dressing sailor

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T12:39:00-07:00February 10th, 2012|Categories: women sailors|Tags: crossdressing sailors, music, women sailors|

Short jacket and white trousers this young girl she put[...]

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Barbados Bound!

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T12:30:37-07:00January 31st, 2012|Categories: writing and publishing|Tags: Barbados Bound, Fireship Press, Star-Crossed|

I'm so happy to have the chance to revise and[...]

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America’s Privateer; Lynx and the War of 1812

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T12:40:39-07:00January 18th, 2012|Categories: history|Tags: Privateer Lynx, War of 1812|

“To this day, we don’t really know[...]

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Sisters Under Sail in 2012

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T13:44:31-07:00January 8th, 2012|Categories: women sailors|Tags: Sisters Under Sail, teen sailors, women sailors|

It's that time of year when a young woman's heart[...]

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Jessica Watson’s True Spirit

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T11:29:27-07:00December 31st, 2011|Categories: women sailors|Tags: circumnavigation, Ella's Pink Lady, Jessica Watson, Sidney-Hobart Race, teen sailors|

True Spirit: The True Story of a 16-Year-Old Australian Who[...]

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Laura Dekker’s Christmas at Sea

By lindacollison|2011-12-25T18:35:30-07:00December 25th, 2011|Categories: women sailors|Tags: circumnavigators, Laura Dekker|

Tonight as I prepare our Christmas dinner on land I[...]

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Steven Maffeo’s Perfect Wreck

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T13:48:04-07:00December 19th, 2011|Categories: author interviews, history|Tags: Fireship Press, historical nautical fiction, Old Ironsides, Steven Maffeo, The Perfect Wreck, USS Constitution|

“On board Old Ironsides, it suddenly occurred to Lieutenant[...]

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Brave women on the battlefield

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T11:50:17-07:00December 15th, 2011|Categories: odds & ends|Tags: Army, Leigh Ann Hester, medic, Silver Star, Spc. Monica Lin Brown, women solldiers|

When I was an ER nurse we used to say[...]

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Joan Druett blogs about Surgeon’s Mate

By lindacollison|2012-05-18T13:50:35-07:00December 13th, 2011|Categories: women sailors, writing and publishing|Tags: historical nautical fiction, Joan Druett, Medicine at Sea, Nautical History, Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, Surgeon's Mate|

One of my favorite author/historians is Joan Druett, whose maritime[...]

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