Summer Grilled Peach Pizza
We’d traveled recently; two spots in Florida to visit friends (my "brother" Mark and his wife Jan) in Naples [...]
Available for Pre Order – La Concha de Mar, Book One of The Driftwood Chronicles
Hello Loyal Readers, My latest novel, La Concha de Mar (The Seashell), is the story of Laine Devlin, a [...]
Theoretical Boat Speed. What?
Sailing with engineers is always an interesting experience. I’m watching terns dive for fish and seagulls sitting on channel [...]
Fay Kraycer – Eulogy for a Friend
Losing a friend of almost 40 years is hard. Even when the friend is in her nineties and has [...]
Saved by the Gazpacho
Summer is hard on my diet. I equate things like boating and cookouts to opportunities to eat and to [...]
Some Things Fishy
We were called to an appointment on Aquidneck Island last week, and we never turn down an opportunity to [...]
Fireworks
There are several definitions of the word ‘Fireworks’. One is the traditional merriment we all try to witness on [...]
Reconnecting
People cycle in and out of our lives. Friends and relatives we were once close to drift away to [...]
Carpio Diem, or Seize the Carp
My cousin Claudia’s in-laws have a cottage on western New Hampshire Lake Mascoma, and she and her husband John [...]
More Milestones
Steve and I traveled to Vermont this week to celebrate my mother-in-law Joan’s 79th birthday. She and my brother-in-law [...]