Month: November 2025

red cloudy sky during sunset

Sailor Take Warning

Two days ago, I needed to take my teenage son to Boston for a necessary medical procedure that his doctor doesn’t perform locally. Boston is a little over an hour from my home and I was dreading the drive. My late husband, Barry, was always the chauffeur when we had to go to Boston for

woman on a boat holding gas lantern

The Best Boat Buddy

On a very rainy November day in 1977, I was seven years old and my mom was unusually late picking me up from school. As students began to trickle out to their waiting buses or parents, I was left behind. Anxiety and fear started to gnaw at me. A fellow seven year old neighborhood playmate,