Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

Public space, dwindling as it is and socialist by definition is a true asset of America.

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When we were travelling, we didn’t think too much about the food we were eating.  Oh sure, there were certain cautions we had to mind, like the snail in Southeast Asia that was poison and would sneak into the lettuce and just sit there waiting to be eaten.  But for the most part, food, once [...]

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We never knew what we didn’t have.

We enjoy America’s moniker of ‘melting pot’ as a feature that distinguishes us from other places. It seems a great American pastime to find this way or that way to distinguish ourselves, especially in areas of our obvious superiority, and one area of that superiority is in our [...]

//Memories of Indonesia:
As Americans, we live in invisible test tubes of about an arm’s length called our space and we feel uncomfortable when someone violates it. In Indonesia, and in all of the non-western cultures that we visit, personal space does not exist, and we learn not to miss such space.
We use, wherever possible, local [...]