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
The Mistress in the Mangroves
On the day before the hurricane was due to make landfall, the harbor was silent. In the city and along the shores of the port, the locals scurried along hammering wood over glass windows and cramming cardboard between glass and the outward facing metal bars, but the harbor was still. On the approach to the marina, a few people were visible as they milled about making preparations, but the vast majority of the city’s residents were far more focused on their homes and wellbeing than that of ... View Post
