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Swimming off Cape Horn

Beryl looked back to see a great wall of water towering above her, so high and steep that she knew Tzu Hang could not ride over it. The...

Hard Aground

We were hard aground on a South Pacific reef, with the sun and the tide both falling. We had gone through the prescribed steps from my...

The Two Conditions

I had an early experience with independence on a family vacation when I was seven years old. Everybody was at lunch, and I wanted to go...

The Perfect Amount of Trauma

I heard a podcast last year where the host and his guest were talking about Michael Phelps, the all-time record holder for most Olympic...

A New Set of Lenses

It was early in my career and I was sailing with colleagues on Galveston Bay. I was trying to determine our location from a buoy marking...

Seeing The Unseen

Jack and I were in the pilothouse, 12 feet up and scanning the water ahead of the ferry. We were traveling slower than usual because of...

Running Fast

Decades ago, when I was running triathlons, I trained brutally on the trail, the bike, and in the pool. With my running, in particular, I...

Walking Heads

Rapa Nui legend held that the giant stone heads on Easter Island, known as moai, walked from the quarries where they were carved to the...

Acting School

A study at Harvard concluded that when people are faced with a chronic lifestyle disease—diabetes, heart disease, smoking, chronic...

Where There Is No Doctor

We left San Francisco with a large yellow Pelican Case, filled with medical supplies and expensive prescription meds we hoped never to...

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