Tag: romance

  • Winter Fever

    The sky: cold, flatGray as concrete.Below it: the freezing beach, Near hard as ice, The winter ocean, Sleeping deeply. Sky of snow cloudsHanging low, Frozen raindrops, Ice crystals, Geometric miracles, […]

  • Armed

    Coming into Mobile Bay, tying up at Dog River Marina, I had a decision to make: whether to sail for Key West, across the Gulf of Mexico, or take the […]

  • Virtue of the Easy Way

    We had been on the move for a month. Starting out, I had tried to teach Betsy how to manage the boat, taking any opportunity to teach and keep her […]

  • Deepwater Anxiety

    We motor-sailed on to Galveston, another easy run, no wind to speak of.  At the mouth of Port Bolivar, where the giant freight ships came into the Houston Ship Channel, […]

  • Superstitious

    No amount of precaution and planning would keep Betsy comfortable for long in open water.  She had no experience of time in a seaway  All she had seen in the […]

  • Belly Up

    Betsy was all for heading to the Caribbean or Central America, to the Rio Dolce, the “sweet river”, in Guatemala.   That was where I imagined delivering the baby, anchored […]

  • Tuning the Rig

    We had not had sex since living together in the mountains.  Back then, we had had a lot of it for fun, not trying to get pregnant.  The fun had […]

  • Name Change

    We were hungover leaving the yacht broker’s house.  I asked Betsy to drive and opened the car door, letting her in.  Closing the door, I walked around to the passenger […]

  • Expiration Date

    At a dinner party with the yacht broker who had sold me the boat, Betsy and I sat across the table from Mark, a good looking younger man, one of […]