We had about an hour of glorious weather turning the corner through Unimak Pass. There’d been fog for most of the last day and night, with our sleep constantly punctuated […]

We’re in that state that evokes the (possibly apocryphal) assertion from Anacharsis that “There are three kinds of people – those dead, those alive, and those at sea.” The ship […]

Such a strange series of double takes on the way outbound this morning. Pull my pocketknife out to put in…no, I don’t need to do that. Gauge the level in […]

I know I’ve written about this before, but I’m on a plane, and am apparently too cheap to spring for the inflight internet to check. No, I’m going to claim […]

Heads up that this is really just a what-I-did-this-past-week ramble without any underlying theme or clever message. I’ve just been in Colorado this past week, catching up with old friends […]

Last fall I wrote about being halfway down the slippery slope of becoming a bonafide “singer-songwriter.”  How’s that going, you ask? Well, I’ve already had two paying gigs this month, […]

One of the insidious downsides of social media, for a writer, is that by letting you dribble narrative out into bite-sized snapshots, it saps your need to keep it all […]

I’ve been meaning to write. For a while, really. Looking in my “Drafts” file, there are three unfinished posts remarking on my continued recovery (two thumbs up!), various music shenanigans, […]

I’m going to pin it on three factors: First, it’s an amazing time to be alive, in terms of medical innovations. Half the techniques used to detect my prostate cancer, […]