Well, I suppose there’s good news all around: Piers has been alive six years without seriously hurting himself, so we celebrated. Lobster-shaped chocolate cake with us during the week, and then lots of friends and family on the weekend. I’ve been hired to lecture a full-year section of Introduction to Philosophy at Lakehead University for this […]
More ›Of the many – many – different kinds of sailing, solo distance racing appeals to me the most, by far. In fact, if I were a younger man I would seriously consider trotting off to western France or southern England (but France is indisputably the kingdom of this kind of sailing – course au large, as […]
More ›Last night was the first TBYC Wednesday night race, officially marking the beginning of summer for a tiny segment of Thunder Bay’s population – the yacht racers. (Haha! That sounds just ‘proper’ doesn’t it? In Thunder Bay, it couldn’t be farther from the truth – we are about as elitist as any dive bar.) We didn’t […]
More ›Yes, Hawaii… I was skeptical, fearful of overdevelopment and cliches, but I clearly did not know a bloody thing about Maui! I know a little more now, and I’ll share a bit soon enough, on a separate page devoted to it. Yes. Devoted. In the meantime, I’ll tell you that Straight Jacket was painted while I was […]
More ›Not just a great song/album by Marvin Gaye (brother, brother, brother…), but a partial explanation of why it’s been some time since my last post. I’ve been busy. (No, really. Sometimes I say that, but this time I actually mean it.) You see, even though the bay is still frozen, my life has been once […]
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