We Are Here! We Are Here!
Originally published in The Philadelphia Inquirer October 12, 2017 Horton…heard it again! Just a very faint yelp As if some tiny person were calling for help. from Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss I can’t tell you what it …
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Hurricane Irma Relief for St. John
Thanks to DJ Questlove (from The Roots and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) who presided over the music for six hours at the Brooklyn Bowl in NYC this weekend to raise money for Hurricane Irma relief on St. John. …
My National Park: Virgin Islands National Park
Let’s start with the color of the water. This is really what it looks like. No filter, no special effects. Just a snapshot on a regular old phone camera. Those blues and greens are real. We are celebrating the 100th …
Yes, Virginia, Santa Claus Lives in Coral Bay
Originally published in the St. John Sun Times In the December issue of Caribbean Travel & Life there is an ad for the magazine depicting a barefoot Santa Claus in shades, sack full of gifts on his back, stepping off a …
The Old Men and the Sea
Originally published in the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta program book “When does a man quit the sea?” asked E.B. White in his essay “The Sea and the Wind that Blows.” For the answer, consider the captain and crew of Ruffian, …
Midnight, Atlantic Standard Time
Originally published in the St. John Sun Times In typical island fashion, it was hard to tell when the old year ended and the new one began. The party was at Skinny Legs in Coral Bay where the unadvertised festivities (New …
Thanksgiving Questions
Originally published in the St. John Sun Times We are now hoping to arrive by Thanksgiving. The boat is ready. After spending two months in the yard in Maine, the 70-foot Sonny is docked in Newport, Rhode Island, freshly painted and …
A Pirate’s Life for Him
A Tribute to St. John Icon Pirate Bill CORAL BAY, U.S. Virgin Islands — Pirates, I have learned since moving to St. John, have discriminating taste in beer. Grog, the watered-down rum that was the aqua vitae of all the seventeenth century …