Congrats to Prince Harry! His memoir, Spare, which came out a year ago–same as mine–sold, according to his publisher, 3.2 million copies in the first week. By contrast, NOT ON ANY MAP: One Virgin Island, Two Catastrophic Hurricanes, and the …
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Not long after I turned forty, I sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a tiny boat with no engine and a bucket for a bathroom. For sixteen days I didn’t see land. It was a mid-life adventure of epic proportions, …
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“Every so often, someone with a sharp eye and a way with words lands in a unique locale, pays attention and then nails it in print. Such is the case with Margie Smith Holt who fled to Coral Bay in …
There was a time in my professional life when I would have thought a book party with no books was a tragedy. I mean, seriously. A book party with no books? One of the things I learned from living on …
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Central Park Says Goodbye to Retiring Shakespeare Gardener To business that we love we rise betime, And go to ‘t with delight. –William Shakespeare The Bard might have been talking about Larry Boes when he wrote those words. For the past …
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen, Anthem
Three years ago this weekend I watched a weary band of sailors in Coral Bay, St. John, pull off an extraordinary feat. They held their annual Thanksgiving regatta, just weeks after being decimated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, two back-to-back …
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea Happy Thanksgiving.