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Moonlight Voyage
Moonlight Writing Awake at Night? Let Your Imagination Sail Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places. ~ Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy In my late teens and...
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Sailing Solo
Solo in West Cork Scenic Route to Bantry My Writing Adventure in Ireland “I heard you went to Ireland…I haven’t seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?” “Wet as a bath sponge and...
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Library Boat
Have Book, Will Travel William Faulkner on Reading and Writing Read, read, read. Read everything–trash, classics, good and bad–Read! Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the...
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Summer Boat
Summer State of Mind: Tips for Practicing the Omm of Summer Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~ Henry James In the...
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San Francisco Sailing
Craving California Sunshine? Summer is San Francisco’s Season of Fog The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~quote widely misattributed to Mark Twain, probably originated with...
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Gravy Boat
Better with Gravy Why Make Bucket Lists When Life’s So Tasty? That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. ~ Raymond Carver Gravy: That’s how writer Raymond Carver...
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Road Boat
On the Road: Jackalope Days When in doubt, let your horse do the thinkin’. ~ Old West Proverb My family’s annual summer road trip from Oregon to visit extended family in Ohio was a grueling, sweaty...
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Better with Gravy Why Make Bucket Lists When Life’s So Tasty? That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones. ~ Raymond Carver Gravy: That’s how writer Raymond Carver...
View ArticleLyrical Landings
New Irish Landmarks: Following the “Heaney Trail” .…be advised/My passport’s green./No glass of ours was ever raised/to toast The Queen. ~ Seamus Heaney, objecting to his inclusion in The Penguin Book...
View ArticleGhost Boat
Ghost Tourism: Haunted Portland, Oregon Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between. ~ Neil Gaiman,...
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Travel Planning 101: Research Possibilities, Experiment with Options Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” ― Albert Einstein For the past few years I’ve enjoyed crafting...
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My Paris Romance: The Story of a Bookstore On a cold windswept street, this was a warm, cheerful place with a big stove in winter, tables and shelves of books, new books in the window, and photographs...
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Imagining the Secret Annex: What Anne Frank Means to Me I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ~ Anne Frank, born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt, Germany – died...
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Encore Nights: Discovering French-American Rhythms in Paris and Dakar Life is a lot like jazz–it’s best when you improvise.” ― George Gershwin “You realize we just violated the rule of two,” I said to...
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