Other Water Fronts

ByNancy September 3, 2009January 25, 2019

Just returned from a wedding in California where we visited three kinds of water, not to worry about it, or tell people what to do with it, or pontificate about it, but just to do the best things possible with it:

Play!

Tom and the boys at Baker Beach in San Francisco

Have a party!

Tom built this pond for his cousin/best friend whose wedding we were all in the Bay Area to celebrate.

Be awestruck.

Heading toward Point Reyes on the way home.

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Clouds Over Two Islands

ByNancy November 30, 2011January 30, 2019

As I was driving home from work tonight a strand of frothy cloud stretched the length of Whidbey Island. At either end it joined into a massive cloud bank. Watching these clouds I flashed back to another atmospheric display over Stonehenge last month. A rainstorm had chased us all the way from Montacute to Stonehenge….

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Marooned Sailor’s Lament

ByNancy March 28, 2012January 30, 2019

The following is a guest post. The author is my past self. In many ways this essay was the first Tidal Life post, though years passed between writing it and beginning to publish this blog. I share it now because in it I wrote about my hope for the future – and the future has…

rusty steel ball on the shore of Mayaguana. S physical reminder of letting the days go by.

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Letting The Days Go By At Mayaguana

ByNancy August 3, 2024August 6, 2024

My anxiety mirrored the wind, a constant vigilance, accompanied by gusts of reaction to every stimulus. I worried about hurricanes, dragging anchor, the relentless wind, high waves pinning us in port, squalls, running out of water, running out of food, not being able to sleep. I had to work on the vital skill of letting the days go by.

Marina friends waving as sailboat Domino leaves the dock.

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Setting Sail for the Cruising Life

ByNancy March 20, 2023March 21, 2023

Buy a Boat and Travel That’s the dream of the cruising life. In reality, there is one more step. No boat, no matter how new, or how well equipped, is ready for sea on the day you buy her. So it’s more like buy a boat, make her yours, and travel. We worked on Domino…

Image of hand made crafts prepping for catastrophe

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Feeling a little vulnerable

ByNancy March 17, 2010February 1, 2019

Preparing for catastrophe The wind took down another tree yesterday, a wild cherry from the little grove at the edge of the road. We came home to find it all cut up in firewood size lengths. Presumably by someone who needed to drive up the road. Hope nobody’s car got squished this time. As my…

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So Far, this Independence Thing is Working

ByNancy July 4, 2014March 4, 2018

One year ago today Tom and I declared our personal Independence Day, cast off the dock lines and headed out to cruise aboard Sunshine, our 32 foot Freedom. Since that day we’ve sailed to every state on the east coast of the U.S.

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