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The other night I fell into musing as my wife watched Pirates of the Caribbean. My mind slipped back to a time years ago and in a place far away:They did not belong. They stuck out like sore thumbs, aviators; Brown Shoe Navy types, while everyone else was Black Shoe Navy, Merchant Marine, fishermen, or …
Daily writing promptWhat are your future travel plans?View all responses Let's not be theatrical. We aren't going to Tahiti, Madagascar, or Desolation Island soon. Prince Edward Island, on the other hand, would be pleasant, and I'd love to drop into Halifax. I'd be uncommonly pleased, as a matter of fact, to noodle around any of the Down East …
Daily writing promptWhat do you listen to while you work?View all responses Working to music is something I have never understood. When I lived on the coast, I used to have a small radio tuned to the marine weather forecast. The drone of how high the tides would be, wind direction, and precipitation formed a …
Daily writing promptDescribe your most memorable vacation.View all responses When I was much more active as a nautical carver, vacations were of the working sort. My wife and I would pack the car with four kids and camp goods and go to whatever boat show I would do that week. During the day, I'd work …
This is a flashback Friday presentation from a bit over three years ago. It tells a story about my gray cat, Clancy - AKA The Grey Menace. Clancy was a bloodsport type of cat. If no other cat or dog were available to pick on, he'd pick on me. He eventually ran out of cats …
I haven't been a fan of the big famous brand of chocolate bar from Pennsylvania for a long time.
I had two bosses in an operating room I worked in. Sophia had a poster on her office wall of a turtle reminding you that the turtle only made progress when it stuck its neck out. On the other hand, Betty had a little cubby hole office with a poster of two vultures sitting on a tree in the desert. One bird looks at the other and states, " Wait for something to die? Hell, I'm going to go kill something!
Some of us are on a safari, sampling life as we move from place to place or experience to experience. Others seem tied to one locale by an invisible byssus that holds them to one environment.
My friend sat there sipping his bourbon, looked over at me, and said, "Oh, what stories we could tell!" But, of course, he was referring to some of the things that happened at or that we saw during our years of doing boat shows.
A good day by the water involves at least a bit of time looking at ripple marks, jetsam, and flotsam. Jetsam is those things people have tossed overboard, and flotsam is the many things that can be found floating.
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