On a Boat and Sailing
Sailing at Last We finally made it out onto the water. No, that doesn’t mean we launched our boat. What it means is our new friends Stacey and Jessie took pity on us...
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Mother Nature Says: Time to clean up your room, but it’s okay if it’s fun
It’s winter, not the high season for northern beaches But the winter beach is beautiful and interesting. The slope is steeper, the colors are different. The sharp wind wakes you up. The high...
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Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi – No Spoilers in this Un-Review
Lately my reading has listed heavily toward young adult fiction. Never mind why. All you need to know is that the latest representative of this genre to sail through here was Ship Breaker...
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Design can save the earth
I don’t drink Coke, or anything else with bubbles. It’s not a moral decision, I just hate the way bubbles make my nose feel. I make an exception for tonic water which, when...
Read More →Memorial Day weekend
I’ve sailed away from Puget Sound for a holiday in Portland, Oregon. Though the water here is river rather than salt, Portlanders (Porlandians? Portlandites?) are very connected to their waterfronts. The Willamette, which...
Read More →Withdrawl – from plastic and chemical dependency
In my ongoing effort to stop buying plastic containers and chemical products I decided to first try an alternative shampoo and went searching on the web for solid bar types. On Grist I...
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