Couvreux family featured among five who left it all to travel the world with their children.
Read MoreLearning to Let Your Children Go
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My husband was an architect, and then he wasn’t. I was supposed to become a famous journalist, but I didn't. Our choice to live and sail on a sailboat with our two children for 10 years had us hopscotching and dancing around our careers during that chunk of time....Could we, should we, have expected more of our two boys?
Read MoreUp and Over
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While preparing coffee, I glimpsed Brendan scrambling up the ice chest. I yelled for him to stop, but he was over the net and in the water with a big splash in two seconds flat!
Read MoreHidden Jungle Tales
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We couldn’t resist the opportunity to stop at Devil’s Island...infamous from 1854 to 1952 as one of France's most notorious prisons, or "hell on earth."
Read MoreA Gaggle of Cruising Kids
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They were one grand, wet, rambunctious, laughing amoeba of towheads, redheads, arms, and legs. They cackled in accented English, French, and Spanish, swimming and jumping helter-skelter.
Read MoreDown But Not Out
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Barely out of Florianopolis, we were tossed around violently—a cork on a wild sea of foam, with 50 knots of wind. As the sea grew more frenzied, I became alarmed, and I seriously wondered if Cowabunga was going to pull us through intact.
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Ten Rules to Live By That I Learned from Living on a Sailboat
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On land as well as on the sea, the shit will hit the fan. In a rush to get to work, the coffee maker breaks, your pants zipper malfunctions, and the car tire is flat. In my ten years of living on a sailboat, a typical bad day was a dragging anchor, a ripped sail, and our toddler throwing a vital tool overboard. At sea as on land, it always happened in three's.
Read MoreFirst Place Winner at San Francisco Writers Conference
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At the occasion of the annual premier writing and publishing event, The San Francisco Writers Conference, one of the vignettes that inspired Sail Cowabunga!, was chosen as the conference's 2017 winner for Adult Nonfiction. Stranger in the Nightwas the vignette that caught their eye.
Read MoreWe Banned Nintendo, and Now It's Back!
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The latest craze, fad, and craziness that has burst upon the pop culture scene is Pokémon Go, brought to us by, once again, Nintendo. I thought this company was dead! Well, at least in my mind it was. I had buried it years ago.
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