I Hear the Ants Breathing
This poem appears in Voice of a Voyage, published by Sunstone Press. It’s one of my favorites. I wrote it in Australia during our circumnavigation …
Belles-Lettres: Read/See
Art, literature, poetry, essays, by me and others. No doubt, some commentary on banned books, which I hope you read.
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
This is a fantastic poem by Judyth Hill. Her website is www.judythhill.com. She gave me permission to share it. Ironically she wrote it many years …
Becoming a Wanderer
This voyage at sea: had I constructed my own diaspora or had I become a nomad? Rather, I thought I was becoming a wanderer, a …
Tea in a Bombed-out Alley
Tea in a Bombed-out Alley I stumbled on them in an alley while looking for a school. I had heard children’s voices, bouncing over a …
Haunting Tiger: A plea for sensible gun control
This tiger shadows us, its low-pitched growl more like soft murmuring waves on shore over and over. peopledopeopledopeopledo Eighteen, just got his first job as …
Finding the Next Wave: The Exceptional Navigation Skills of the Polynesians
Excerpts from Voice of a Voyage: Rediscovering the World During a Ten-year Circumnavigation. “Polynesian culture has been called “a culture of mobility” in academic papers. …
Finding Odysseus, Continuing to Avoid the Immediate Present
“Ithaca was the home of Odysseus and the end of his odyssey. As Odysseus said, ‘It is a rough land, but nurtures fine men. And …
Numerous and Arrogant and the Spirit of Odysseus
Given the insanity around us, it seems only appropriate to escape to the late 8th century BCE. Why not? The following is an excerpt from …
e-book version of Voice of a Voyage now available
My publisher, Sunstone Press, just let me know that the e-book version of Voice of a Voyage is available for pre-order from such sites as …