This post originally appeared on Arkansas Women Bloggers in early 2016 for the "Adventure" theme. After our recent family adventure to check out the solar eclipse, it felt like time to share it again. In Singapore in the early 1990s. I was raised by a pirate. A Frenchman running from the law sold him his vessel, and together we sailed out of Port Royal - the city so wicked it sank into the Caribbean Sea - and out into open waters to circle Dead Man’s Key. The boat would pitch ... View Post
Plan a Perseid Picnic
When I was a kid, we lived in Jamaica... and yes, it was a phenomenal experience. My Dad has always been intrigued with the cosmos (it's worth reading the origin of that word, in my opinion), and so I thought it was common during childhood to be pulled from bed in the middle of the night to observe some sky-event. In fact, we lived there when Halley's Comet was last visible in 1986, and I remember viewing it through Dad's telescope in front of our house, which sat on top of Stony Hill and ... View Post
