Wallhangers & Lawn Art
No cruise is complete without a thorough exploration of the local pubs, restaurants, and neighborhoods (usually in that order). It’s not just beer, food, and exercise that I’m after when I’m poking about town. I enjoy looking at the art and artifacts that the locals put on display. What you find hanging from the walls…
Signs of Alaska
I grew up in a sign-painting family and worked in the industry for a number of my early years. Back then, the zoning boards and code enforcers did everything they could to tamp down signage in the visible landscape. Urban planners said signs were, “just a means of indexing the environment.” Well such ‘planning’ was…
Optics
Happy Birthday to me! I’m old and can’t see! . . . In my younger years, I had eagle eyes. I could spot things miles before my peers. Then I hit forty and things started slowly going downhill. Books got a bit blurry and copy on the laptop got fuzzy towards the end of the…
What Are The Odds?
Seventeen years ago I bought my first power catamaran. Little did I know it was to be the trading stock that propelled me towards hundreds of future multihull deals. I was living on Bainbridge Island and working in Seattle’s SoDo district down near the Duwamish River. The cattle-call of the ferry commute was breaking my…
West of North
Ken & Kim Hoover retired, bought a power cat from me in Tacoma, Washington, and promptly pointed their bows West of North to Wrangell, Alaska. Then Ken wrote a novel – West of North (https://www.amazon.com/West-N). I ran into Ken on the docks and he gave me a copy. Right now, I am sitting in the…