Not your Grandma’s Bingo

Grenada, August 2015 It’s a Wednesday night in Grenada, and I think I’ll be tucking in for an early night after a long afternoon of beach volleyball. Until I get the invitation to go play bingo after dinner at Prickly

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Boat Friends

Boats breed intimacy.  Confined in the tight spaces under the decks and between hulls, relationships flourish (or flounder).  There is no privacy, there are no secrets, there is no block to walk around or bedroom to hide in.  The pressure

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Waiting for Monday: Volcanic Eruptions in the Caribbean

Montserrat, February 2015   When Jimmy Buffet recorded the lines “I don’t know where I’m a gonna go when the volcano blow,” in Montserrat in 1979, he had no reason to believe that the volcano about which he sang (Soufriere on

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