Names have power, and so do words. The change.org petition hosting site has two options for ending a petition. One option is to simply...

On it’s way… my friend at the post office To all of you who supported and were part of my Walk to Waken the Nation, the Ottawa Climate...

Hello, this is Ann, briefly out of the technical deadish zone and catching up a little bit while I’m temporarily somewhere with better...

Sometimes I percolate plans or loquacious blog posts while doing stuff like bailing the bilge… sometimes I rewrite earworms and sing them...

I’ve been talking with a friend about the strings that keep us from changing, while packing the old worn lines not currently holding the...

I love crazy old ladies, and I always wanted to be one. I do have questions about being a crazy old lady… but not the usual sort (of...

Actually, I didn’t even know the answer till I started typing and words came out and went that way. But first, so the train of thought’s...

(Found online… and lost again, but it fits here and snippets of boatmess don’t) Thanksgiving. A day of gratefulness. A day dedicated to...

Climate Emergency Sailboat Budget, Maintenance Log, and Inventory Updated in light of recent information and doings, and shared in the...

With some truly ugly photos, and some others to balance them out, at the end… The rain is keeping Mr Myrtle and the bins inside, so I’m...

Ernst Haeckel jellyfish, from his work “Art Forms in Nature” (published in installments between 1899 and 1904; borrowed here from a...

With much advice and pending changes as per further advice, here’s the budget and maintenance log. It looks daunting but finding things...

It seems like a good idea to do this with myself, and because so many people have already become part of this, it feels right to share it...

Someone asked me again about how I eat. It happens a lot. Some are curious because I live on a small low-tech boat, some because of my...

Lilypads and river weeds at Long Island lock station… More postscripted below We’re mostly made of water, and available in infinite...

I’ve written about some of the parallels between this journey up the Rideau and our collective journey up the proverbial creek in terms...

Skoro will wait for spring perched on her keel with no water except the ice and snow reminding her of where she belongs. What do dry...

My phone stopped working, so until I was kindly loaned this interim phone (thank you, Extinction Rebellion Ottawa), instead of working —...

My friend John would’ve had a fit at Skoro’s state — she’s good and solid and I love her, but she needs prettying up… and John made every...

I’ve been itching to write about the connections and parallels between the current Climate Emergency Sailboat conundrums and the climate...