You know you’re living right when the sea beckons and you respond without the slightest hesitation, without guilt and, sometimes, without much planning (or even any planning whatsoever). Smart sailors “expect hell so plan well”, but genuine...

It’s Sunday afternoon and I’ve been handed a tall glass of iced tea on the veranda of the in-law’s plantation house. Massive white columns rise up two stories. Family and neighbors, still in their church clothes, are gathered for small talk. I...

Friday, MadDog calls me from the marina bar –drunk off his ass– and loudly updates me on the healing status of his amputated finger. A few hours later he calls again repeating himself as if the first call never even happened. This time he mentions the...

Thursday afternoon, I went online to RedInteractive for a cyber-rendezvous with a hacker named Weird Steve …waited fifteen minutes near the big rock but he didn’t show. Two chicken guys passed by but neither were the Aussie (and there was still no...

Wednesday morning my lovely young bride stopped by unexpectedly (someday I’ll have to remember to explain our “arrangement” of living apart… she stays at her parent’s plantation house just down the road… long story… let’s just say I’m...