Position: 54°26’33.6″N 1°40’11.3″W Talking with strangers isn’t something that came to me naturally. As an awkward teenage boy with eczema and a 1970s-style dysfunctional home life (see Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm), I graduated high school with what seemed like …
Position: 39°18’10.3″N 77°01’10.6″W “On the road of life there are passengers and there are drivers. Drivers wanted” That slogan is from 1995. A vintage similar to a 30-year-old bottle of Macallan’s Single Malt Whiskey. A bottle of which will set …
Position: PENURIOUS When it comes to saving money, I’m all for it. As a nearly Old Age Pensioner I am thoroughly looking forward to my birthday when a surfeit of discounts will fall my way. Among the benefits I will …
Position: 47°50’54.1″N 120°46’40.8″W We left Albuquerque and Carol’s Dad Bob in the capable hands of her older brother, Chris. Our departure met with a little trepidation on all sides, but we were confident that Bob would train Chris quickly and …
Position: 41°12’58.4″N 13°34’23.4″E Like all things on Aleta, we try and right-size our waste management for the available space. Our ability to sail for weeks at a time and not look like a fully laden, seagull baiting scow was borne …
POSITION: 35°10’36.5″N 106°28’13.0″W You need a break. Walk out our back door into the wilderness. You may think I’m exaggerating, but a quarter of a mile up the hill is an honest-to-G** National Forest Wilderness. What, you ask, distinguishes a …
Position: RUFFHOUSING Having learned during the pandemic that any time spent sitting still leads to acquiring stuff, we spent a good part of last summer offloading Aleta’s excess cargo. Of course, as keen readers know, Marlon was unceremoniously booted off …
Position: 47°45’30.8″N 120°39’19.9″W In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin’s breast; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove; In the spring a young …
Position: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD “You MOFOs and your FOMO! Sheesh! Get your MOJO back with some JOMO.” – Boris Spinovsky In the realm of first world problems, the psychological condition of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) certainly reeks …
