I was caught out in a storm last August. My boat, Glencannon, is a stout little Cape Dory motorsailor and took it like a champ. Go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djpzXCnBvjc
My little ship Glencannon in New York and Cuttyhunk last summer
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Leeram in Fordlandia
Read More »Gilbert Greenbush leads a comfortable, if unexamined life in greater Boston, until he receives a shrunken head as a gift. Leeram, the head, has the personality of a New York cabbie and the two become the oddest couple ever to share space under a roof. Enter a real Amazon woman, Suxie Redbone and her beautiful […]
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About
Read More »Planting a garden of experiences that I am now harvesting with fiction. Life is what happens around the next corner and I’ve turned a few. I once even drove a Checker cab in Boston for a little while. I was between jobs and needed the money, but found that it was surprisingly fun and I was […]
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Fordlandia
Read More »Deep in the Amazon rain forest, on the banks of the Rio Tapajos which flows north into the enormous Amazon River – the thickest artery of a watershed that produces twenty percent of the world’s fresh water – lies an abandoned, crumbling Midwestern town. A few squatters live there now. It is called Fordlandia. I […]
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Sea Tales from Buell
A boat builder in Maine with a good eye carved her model in 1928, using soft pine — his thumb on the wood and a carving knife tucked inside his fingers so that he could bring thumb and fingers together as if he was milking a cow. He was a holdout, didn’t like the […]
Second Thoughts
A long look back — and a quick one ahead
Honor What word is so lost, so unused and so dismissed in this world of trigger warnings, Ponzi schemes, term paper mills, “rape culture”, revenge porn, and hedge fund cheaters as the word honor. The word “diss” is used a lot, a strange truncation spoken as if the speaker just ran out of energy before […]
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