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the early history of light
I know that reads like something out of a story, but that’s just how things used to be there.
May 18
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September 2022
buoys
Sometimes you will knock over half the tray of welcome drink on yourself and, covered in champagne at 9am in the early stages of a sixteen-hour day, you…
Sep 2, 2022
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June 2022
despair has its own calms
If I am ever trapped on a boat that is actually a cage maze with fake hazards, I guess I will do fine.
Jun 7, 2022
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March 2022
the story of the deckhand who pretended to be a sea-captain
as related to me by the sea-captain M.— C.—, in a tavern in the port of Hamburg, in the summer of the year before the plague Once upon a time the…
Mar 21, 2022
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December 2021
the city of cats
In the grass and over and under every corrugated-tin fishing shack and ramshackle dinghy lounged cats: cats rummaging through piles of fish heads, cats…
Dec 15, 2021
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June 2021
solstice
The ship sailed out of Harlingen late at night with the high tide, the ragged end of the waning blood moon swollen huge and low over the water, the…
Jun 21, 2021
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May 2021
mouse gardening
On March 8th of last year I walked out of my apartment in New York for what would be the last time, although I didn’t know that then.
May 18, 2021
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January 2021
the story of why sailors sing at sea
The sky was dense with white-spun clouds and everything looked like a black-and-white picture. White snow, grey stone, grey water, grey light. “Hey…
Jan 14, 2021
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December 2020
heinke
There are a lot of sea-stories about Heinke, all of them as wonderful as they are true.
Dec 14, 2020
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October 2020
setting sails
The very first thing I did my very first day working on a tallship was nearly cut the tip of my finger off slicing limes in the middle of the breakfast…
Oct 1, 2020
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May 2020
deutschkurs
For twelve hours a week I struggle through their picnics (“Don’t forget the Käse, Tim! Ha ha ha ha ha!”) and job interviews and endless shopping trips…
May 12, 2020
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April 2020
blackberries
A few days before I left New York, a few weeks before I understood just how much this plague was going to remake the world, my friend Kate gave me a…
Apr 15, 2020
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