Swabbing the Decks

Mother’s Day begins when I drop the wife at Oakland Airport to fly to Portland to hang with her daughter. I had imagined sailing out to Clipper Cove for a night on anchor. I thought I’d do a quick spray off undo the mooring lines and go. Once I started spraying the boat off the […]

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Plot as Epiphany—

Coming up with plans—

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Silver City Shuffle

Great Basin character sketch

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Password for Fix is Yardwork

The megadrought we are suffering turns out to be the perfect civilization threatening weather for my new companion— Montara manzanita—

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Soul with a Chaser of Wind

I tossed a life preserver to my foundering soul and signed up for sailing lessons.

Let the garden speak

Madrones are notorious for being difficult and this is believed to be a perfect fit since I am so difficult myself.

Looking for a few ears

All you get is all I’ve got

Sausalito then and now

Sailing has been part of my life. My first lessons were on 14’ sloop rigged sailboats in the Alameda Estuary. It wasn’t long before a sailing friend purchased his own, a modest seaworthy boat, strong enough to cross oceans, slow enough to make a sailor think twice of doing so. In 1980 there was a […]

Time Whispers

I am no longer at the intersection wondering how much further I have to go. The cast playing the Edmonton International Street Performer’s Festival needn’t say a word. Time whispers in my ear. Street theater is physical. The quickest wits, the sharpest reflexes, these gifts on loan from the gods are asking to be returned. […]

Character

Jeanneau Sloop’s Southernmost Mooring… Avalon, Santa Catalina Island Moitessier 1958, Sailing to the Reefs, “The deterioration in the weather was sudden and without warning— it was just a simple call to order to remind me that winds are not always favourable and that fine weather never lasts for ever. As always when I am obliged […]