While I’m not much of a sailor, I do like boat metaphors. Since I dedicated my last piece to starting a new leg of a journey, it only makes sense that I dedicate this piece to the logistics of setting sail. It’s all well and good to gaze star-eyed at the ocean and dream of […]

So just shy of a calendar year, I’ll be heading back to the mainland. I never thought I’d do this, to be honest. The air is warm, it’s a comfortable life going between my job and apartment, and not very much changes day to day. I could spend an eternity here doing nothing particularly important […]

I have spent the past few months in the Caribbean, and realistically I’ve just spent them living to work rather than working to live. I didn’t really have a plan when I first arrived, so it’s not very surprising that I lapsed into my years old habit of doing menial work for nominal pay, pursuing […]