Island Winds and Easter Sunrise Greetings from the island everyone! I hope that all of you are doing well and adjusting to the Spring time change. It always takes me awhile to adjust, because I like starting my days not with a clock, but instead with the rising of the sun. So with sunrise being […]

The Ballad of Coastal Bend ‘Twas eleven o’clock in the morning and five days out at sea, When a large black cloud on radar showed a storm ahead of me. My brain called out a warning, a turbulent sea no doubt. Wondering if I should continue or should I come about? By four o’clock that […]

When the armies of Napoleon swept over Europe, one of the generals made a surprise attack on the little town of Feldkirch, on the Austrian border. As Napoleon’s formidable army maneuvered on the mountains above the city, a council of its citizens was hastily summoned to decide whether to surrender or attempt a defense. In […]

April Fool’s I don’t mean the joking or pranking kind because that will be over with by the time you’re reading this, that holiday will have passed, all the brilliant gags sprung, all the dumb pranks…pranked. Rather the April fool’s that makes you think Spring is here, that it has arrived, Old Man Winter is […]

  Chimney Swifts are one of my favorite birds and I eagerly await their return each year in the spring. I love their chattery calls and that is most often how I am alerted to their presence. When I was first learning about birds, they were described to me as a cigar with wings. They […]