Personification of Inanimate Objects

I refer to my boat s/v Blue Moon as a female: “she”, “her”. I attribute to her free will and individual character: “She likes to sail at sixty degrees”, “She doesn’t like when we leave her alone too long.” And

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It Really was Better in the Bahamas

We’re at anchor at our last stop in the chain: Mayaguana. The water is so clear we had no trouble threading the needle through three miles of coral heads and sandbars in the long narrow harbor here. The bottom is

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The Sun Also Rises

We live by sunrises and sunsets. We rise when the sun rises, and retire shortly after the sun sets. In between, we channel the sunlight to charge our (literal and proverbial) batteries. We (and our boat) are solar powered. I

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