Casting Off
Blog URL http://www.casting-off.blogspot.com
Located Chattanooga, Tennessee USA
Tags writer, writing, faith, sailing, sailor, feminism, fear, adventure, loneliness
The continuing pilgrimage of a professional adventurer--hiker, long-distance bicyclist, sailor--and writer.
Latest Blog Posts
- A baby on motor oil on Sep 25, 2009
Cucumber flowerMy childhood had its fair share of trauma, although I usually feel guilty talking about it because so many people had it so much worse. My early years were idyllic. I still can’t conceive of anything better than drinking mango lassi...
- Come listen, gather 'round on Jul 10, 2009
Flowers are not a clicheOn the boat, I kept a little notebook of blog ideas. I've abandoned the practice here, partly because my life ashore seems so gosh-darned boring, but mainly because it's hard work to be constantly alert to those twinges of co...
- All your dreams are on their way on Jul 5, 2009
BacklightI’ve been thinking a lot about belief lately, maybe because of the response I received to my Lenten blog, which has led to a lot of additional reading. My father also sent me a link to the Evangelical Manifesto, a document produced by a g...
- Remember the nights on Jul 1, 2009
Learning to help things grow(A lot more pictures of my garden are here.)I’m sitting on a blanket on the grass at my local park. I’ve never been here before, and I don’t know why. There are children playing in the creek with buckets and pails.
- Everything in its right place on May 10, 2009
The New Yorker recently featured a retrospective on the life and work of David Foster Wallace--a brave article, filled with fire and verve and quotes about what it means to be a fiction writer, and what it means, really, to be a human being. David F...
- Account on May 1, 2009
Flowers are pretty.Another poem today, this one by Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish national treasure. (I should add that I'm also not the author of the previous poem, as some seem to have assumed. That was John Updike, who died last year.)The history of...
- How'd I end up here? on Mar 27, 2009
1932-2009Fine PointDecember 22, 2008Why go to Sunday school, though surlily,and not believe a bit of what was taught?The desert shepherds in their scratchy robesundoubtedly existed, and Israel's defeats--the Temple in its sacredness destroyedby Babyl...
