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Free Little Banned Book Library

All of us have discovered Little Free Library’s. We have plenty in my quaint leafy hamlet.

Mop Up of the Odd Item or Two

Liz Taylor hopping into the sack with Richard Burton seems as I recall having been a topic of watercooler gossip for most of a whole decade.

Boat as Soul Repair

Think of a boatyard as mansplaining paradise. Here is located a sanctuary where being told how to do a thing right the first time is near divine guidance.

The revenge of hubris

Right off the bat you need to know the odds of making it to the end was near zero.

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.

Suisun Bay’s Flying Monkeys

Owl Harbor curves like a crescent moon in the delta off of the San Joaquin River. The entrance to the slough is landmarked by the scuttled remains of a tug and dredging crane abandoned decades ago. Boats vary in size and type. There are old motorboats, a newer 45’ ocean going catamaran. It wouldn’t be […]

Making it Real

Laura is a Category 4 hurricane barreling through the Gulf of Mexico’s overheated waters taking aim at East Texas-West Louisiana. The timing of Laura’s arrival is a national nightmare. Predictions are for tidal surges to reach up to 30 miles inland. Driving through Oregon and Idaho Sunday and Monday I was in thick smoke from […]

Chicken on the head

To the tippy top of the small time… the famous chicken routine

solo in time of the virus

Anyone hurts her, anyone, I don’t care who they are, they’ll have to answer to me, the father.

The Bugs of the Sea of Cortez

Anchor holding in San Francisco off Bay View Boat Club. I spent the night on the hook. Here in 1980 I visited the club to attend a meeting of the Dinghy Cruising Association. The DCA trains sailors to cruise by dinghy. Sailing long distances, sleeping and eating aboard a 14’ sailboat requires considerable planning and […]