So I do this thing every month of two where I end up on Ebay and I search for trinkets related to old ships I've been on. Most of it is always the same stuff; just cheap stickers that can be printed on demand or ball caps that have, and probably will continue to, sat in a warehouse until they dissolve into dust. The only people who buy this kind of ( Read more... )

I still come back to this thing. It's surprising how much I haven't changed internally but the world around me constantly ribbons and flows. I've been all over the place for such a long time now that I don't feel like I'm truly grounded. Every goal I have and long term plan always seems so far away. With old age I have found the patience to wait ( Read more... )

It winked into my peripheral vision and caught my full attention as it came down to earth ( Read more... )

Lately I've learned a new skill, how to internalize ( Read more... )

The Man opened the door to his car and collapsed onto the cold hard vinyl seat. He had been in the hospital for a long time. The last few hours were cloudy and haunting. The image of his Father underneath a wriggling mass of tube and wires which were interwoven with his circulatory and cardiovascular system was stuck behind his closed eye lids like ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like writing, I think about it often. I guess I just don't have the time like I used to. Sitting in front of a blank screen with a weight on my shoulders and unburden myself onto the page. Maybe life is easier to handle, the line forward is inked out in front of me. I didn't have to dedicate myself to earning a solid pay check or ( Read more... )

Today I was doing some BS here at but somehow I was lead to some naval history stuff and then through the wiki-verse found myself at a page about the Rock of Gibraltar. Which made me then think of my long term travel list and I remembered I posted a list here.

This is the old list:
1. New Years in Reykjavic or Prauge.
2. Summer week in Greece (a ( Read more... )

About to leave Sicily, feeling pretty apprehensive and nervous. Most of it is work stress...

"We didn't do it ( Read more... )

I had a very strange dream last night. It was very vivid and interesting ( Read more... )