All our plans changed, again, when a very stiff wind made it impractical to motor to Nantucket.
Blog Posts about Travel
Aboard the Arabella: Setting Sail, August 15
Five or six hours of rolling on the Arabella laid several passengers low, knocked out by nausea and Dramamine on the boat’s benches, covered with blankets, solicitous husbands bringing wet washrags to put across their foreheads.
Aboard the Arabella: Newport Harbor, August 15
Young and curly-headed, Captain Mike seems to have some of the fishy nature (so-called) of the captains who manned the whaling ships out of Nantucket in the last century.
Every Three Seconds
I don’t know if any woman is allowed to have two best friends—there may be a rule prohibiting it written in the stars—but I will boldly claim my two.
Endangered
I’m wondering if, as I have suspected, we women writers are endangered…in a novel way.
Small Is…
The little house is the cocoon for my escape, as smallness is and has been for so many others.
Girls of Summer
If she can move like this playing paddle ball, surely she can act with equal skill, grace, and assurance in a board room, a corporate office, or an artist’s studio.
You May Find Showering Easier While Seated
We are an odd bunch, we people who ride the cross country trains.
Chaco
I loved the baldness of my visit last weekend to Chaco: sleeping on the ground, during two nights in May when the temperature dropped into the thirties, was an ordeal of amazing benefits.
Digging in the Dirt
Emigdio introduced us to the day by reminding us of what we may hear often but seldom observe: the sacred and essential nature of Mother Earth, and the need to play, not work, at restoring her native plants to her while loving her with all our hearts.