Despite being on the water for four frustrating days, our time in Duluth was short and to the point. As a result of the extended time on the water, we had less time to turn around and deliver the boat back to Thunder Bay, and so we needed to keep celebrations short, resupply quickly, and […]
More ›The Trans-Superior Race is held every two years. Beginning at Gros Cap light just outside Sault Ste. Marie. Ontario, and ending 338 nautical miles west at the suspension bridge in Duluth, Minnesota, it is the longest fresh-water race in the world. It usually takes about three days to complete; obviously faster if you’re a bigger […]
More ›I have just recently returned from something of a self-broadening event: roughly 800 nautical miles of traversing Lake Superior, first one way, then another, then yet one more. It sounds lovely, sailing for two weeks with friends, but ‘lovely’ is not a word that I can honestly apply to this series of trips, of experiences. […]
More ›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 ›I like winter. I really, really do – even when temperatures are sustaining -30 Celsius for weeks at a time (which happens in January every year); even when the furnace ignitor breaks at midnight (which happened Sunday night); even when it’s too cold for even the kids to want to go outside… I like winter. It […]
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