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 …
Belles-Lettres: Read/See
Art, literature, poetry, essays, by me and others. No doubt, some commentary on banned books, which I hope you read.
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 …
Roxelana and Süleyman: What Happens When You Marry a Power-hungry Woman
Süleyman I “fell in love with one of his concubines, Roxelana, who became known as Hürrem Sultan; and he actually married her. She was a …
Yemen and Qat Litter (not a typo)
In my last blog I wrote a little about our trip to Sana’a. Today, Yemen has worse problems than qat, and if anyone could get …
Review of Voice of a Voyage
Take a look at this link when you can. http://www.storycirclebookreviews.org/reviews/voiceofavoyage.shtml Here’s a brief quote from it (bold for the last sentence is my addition): “The …
Last Post from My Previous Blog, but Something of Interest
I started this blog to make people aware of my book Voice of a Voyage: Rediscovering the World During a Ten-year Circumnavigation, because I wanted …