On the walk home from the radiology laboratory on Wednesday, we stopped for un litro of ice cream for the skipper and one of mango for the lactose-intolerant crew. The lovely thing about La Fuente, besides the fact that they make the ice cream themselves, is that they pack up … Read more →
They come every day to fish near Sea Venture. Michael took the picture below yesterday. Today they were closer and even more spectacular, but M was involved in a project and the camera remained below. By the time I got outside with it, I saw, but couldn’t capture digitally, a … Read more →
Dolphins must be my favorite creature. I wish I’d had the camera handy this evening when Michael hailed me, but I didn’t want to stop watching long enough to go below to get it. I don’t know how many swam here, how many were in the pod, but it was … Read more →
Over at http://www.yourwritersgroup.com/ editor Mick Silva suggests that, yes, the world needs us because it needs our words. What a novel thought. I look over my shoulder to glimpse time’s passing, to wonder how the moments slipped from then to now when I barely feel the years — except for … Read more →
Why is it that the phrase I thought so perfect — so apropos! — leaps suddenly off the page as miserably imperfect? I’ve either got too much or too little of whatever I should or shouldn’t have. I rewrite. Ah, ha! The sentence flows. Or does it? No, it has … Read more →
We tried sailing south from San Evaristo on Thursday, but the one-foot waves were camouflaged under white caps and their larger four to six foot brethren. We should have known better. Flat seas rarely mean flat and one foot happens only after a good long lull. The weather guessers missed … Read more →
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