It’s pretty astonishing that I’ve gone nearly fifty years on this earth without realizing that ‘vacation’ and ‘vacate’ have the same Latin root (vacare: to be empty, free, or at leisure). If you’d asked me, I probably would have sussed it out, but the connection never occurred to me until this weekend, when Kevin and [...]
If, like me, you are fascinated with cognitive neuroscience, you have undoubtedly been following the research on happiness. Basically, we’re learning that things we think will make us happy don’t, usually. New York Times columnist John Tierney is as taken with all this as I am, and he ran a little experiment a couple years [...]
Kevin and I are about midway through an eight-week course in boating safety and seamanship, and I have finally found something I seem to be better at than he is. Knots. Before I could find out that I’m actually pretty good at knots, I had to get over the concept that there were so many [...]
Yesterday we took the new boat for her inaugural sea trial. She did beautifully, which was to be expected since she’s a lovely boat and her previous owner maintained her meticulously. The big test wasn’t when the boat was in the water. It was getting her to the water, into the water, out of the [...]
And now, for the results of the boat-naming contest. But first, let me just say, I have the best commentariat in the blogosphere. We loved the list of nominees, and the comments that went along with it. Dave, thanks for running “Dream Catcher” through your anagram software – that’s exactly the kind of thing we [...]
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Catch-and-release: Yea or nay?
Catch-and-release: Yea or nay?
Go fish!
Go fish!
Go fish!