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?
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Read MoreWhile 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 MoreWe 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 MoreThey 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 MoreBarely 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.
Read MoreI am now listed in two writers' directories: Sonoma County Writers and the San Francisco Chapter of the Women's National Book Association.
Read MoreFar from the madding crowds of Los Angeles' spider-webbed freeways; San Francisco's millennial and tech-frenzy fueled, lofted start-ups; and California's mad-grab housing market; there lies a pristine, isolated coast in a far corner of Northern California where time undeniably just pokes along. Not easily accessible by car, and aptly named the Lost Coast...
Read MoreOn 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 MoreJanis Couvreux is an author, journalist and blogger. Her most recent work is the memoir: "Sail Cowabunga! A Family's Ten Years at Sea."
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Sail Cowabunga! A Family's Ten Years at Sea, Janis Couvreux is a journalist, sailor, mom, grandmom, traveler, and Franco-American, who has blogged at the Huffington Post about living bilingually, crossing oceans, backpacking adventures, and raising kids outside the box.
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