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In October 2015 I left my job as an executive with an engineering firm where I had worked for 25 years, got on my boat, sailed out through San Francisco’s Golden Gate and turned left to begin a two year sailing voyage. All at once, I left a life that was highly structured and in which I had a known and powerful identity, to begin one that had virtually no structure and where I was a nobody.
By working hard
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An important part of my life is sailing. In June of 2017 I completed a voyage that
I just finished reading The Jungle Books (there are two of them) by Rudyard Kipling for the first time. The stories in these books are very different than the
My reaction to Trump being elected president was pretty extreme. I was so shocked and horrified, I felt compelled to do something about it, something big. So, I decided to run for president myself, a Quixotic venture that I put on hold after a few months of exploration. I have since been spending my time observing and studying the nation’s politics. My shock and horror has turned into grave concern. I remain compelled to do something,
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It feels good to finally launch this blog. It is something I’ve wanted to do for months now, but had to fit in with my other ventures and it took some time to set up the way I wanted it.
It feels good to have a place to write about whatever I want to. Writing for me is a natural and comfortable way to express myself – my thoughts, my feelings, my beliefs. I love the process of writing, the
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