Some days ago a friend sent me a note of support about my recently released podcast, First Mate’s Log. Within this kindness was a word that struck a chord: quotidian. Sometime last year I began creating the podcast with an intention, but one I did not name for myself. And I realized upon reading myContinue reading “The Journey Quotidian”
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Final Blog: SV Maggie May
Two years may seem a strange amount of time to pass before writing a “final” blog about life on SV Maggie May. But it has taken me this long to begin to emerge from the tunnel I entered when we docked on the Chesapeake Bay in late June 2023. When we stepped off the boat and moved back into our house, and into lives that seemed no longer our own.
The Beginning
I woke this morning at first light and climbed the four steep companionway stairs into the cockpit. I have climbed these stairs 1000 times in the past 18 months. The boat interior was dark but the sun, still below the mountains to the east, cast a pale light on the clouds in the western sky.Continue reading “The Beginning”
KRISTA SCHLYER 