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Pressure in paradise: On our last night with a phone line before tomorrow’s move for a week to eco-unwired Maho Bay Campgrounds, I am juggling two laptops, trying to help set up Maria’s new Dell Inspiron, update the blog and … Continue reading →

Capt John Clark demonstrates an azimuth mirror, used for navigating by the stars with accuracy rivaling modern GPS systems. Tweet

Capt. John Clark when he was five years old took an overnight ferry to his grandparents’ home on the island of Jersey for the holidays. He remembers standing by the rail, looking out at the sea and thinking,”This would be … Continue reading →

I’ve been sitting on the bed of the apartment for a couple of hours, trying to find a blog to add to my “Links” section. Darlene is reading next to me, and we are both swatting mosquitoes, which arrived today … Continue reading →

The scene this afternoon at Hawk’s Nest Beach, a five-minute taxi ride from Cruz Bay on St. John’s.   Tweet

I was pleased to find that time management guru David Allen, author of Getting Things Done , has difficulty finding time to blog. I’ve been following his blog for a while (see the link I added to this page), and … Continue reading →

The view from my porch, toward Frank Bay on St. John.  Tweet

This morning I stopped by the office of St. John Tradewinds , the island’s weekly newspaper, to offer my free services as an occasional reporter. I was expecting the general manager to be old, someone who had been reporting on … Continue reading →

Flowers at Gallows Point, on the five-minute walk from our apartment to Cruz Bay. Tweet

Once again, blog-lust is stronger than mere hunger, and as 2 p.m. approaches I am procrastinating my walk down the road for lunch. After solid work on my upcoming review for Rain Taxi on Edward Said’s Humanism and Democratic Criticism, … Continue reading →