Jury Selection
The first rule of jury duty is we don’t talk about jury duty. So let’s talk about Torquemada and the Inquisition, for no reason.
A deep draft sailboat like the one I live aboard is often colder inside than on the weather deck. There is no wind this morning and I left my new wooly socks in the blazing California sunshine, which made stepping up to the cockpit and putting them on a transcendent experience. F
My desk is aft and port side. The galley is amidships on starboard. Twelve feet away (just measured). I habitually take off my readers to get up from the desk and go check the (tonight it is a) rack of lamb, but then I’m trying to read the thermometer with no glasses. Dammit. So
Two months ago, signed up to contribute a whatever to my tiny, perfect yacht club’s biennial art show. It’s the day after tomorrow. At least I got the pieces cut today and the workbench cleaned off. Tomorrow I’ll braze them together (stainless steel and bronze) and make the disp
I shit you not, this is a real moment. It’s the VERY rustic bathroom of a local steelyard. The roof of this little room is corrugated steel and there was an obviously perfect hole in the steel that shot a sunbeam just. so. Best of all, it was my birthday.
I spent all day getting covered with sawdust, sweat, grime, and doing carpentry and wiring and schlepping. So much schlepping. And then I went up for a shower and forgot a towel, so I thoroughly cleaned up as per usual and got dressed - wet - in my After-Shower clothes and went f
Roll credits.