The Girly Girls Guide to Sailing First, I am a girly girl.  I wear heels, and i dont leave the house with out at least some mascara.  I need to wash my hair every day or else it mattes up or dreadlocks.  I like my air conditioning on 'high' when i sleep while i'm under a down comforter.  I like what i like.  So when i

St Patricks Day - The Last Bastion of Silliness I dont really know the history of St Patricks Day, but i do know that it makes me think of green, leprechauns and alcohol.  When i was in university (ok, and welllll after that) this was my favorite night to go to the Irish Pub on 21st St in Philadelphia and drink my face off.  I wasnt

Grenada Part 3 On Day 5 in Grenada, we pulled anchor mid-morning, and sailed to Molinaire.  It was abouto 3 miles from us, and took several hours as there wasnt much wind - but who's in a hurry anyway? Moliniere Bay is where the French anchored to recapture Grenada from the British in 1779.  This place has some history, i'll tell ya.  Between the French, the Brits,

Valentines Day  - Seriously I had a dream last night.  Really. I did.  It was about Valentines Day and i walked into a store to get something completely unrelated to V-Day, and there was this long line of very somber, grief stricken people standing in line.  In my dream, they were all shapes, sizes, cultures and ethnicities.  And they were all miserable.  I shortly thereafter realized

Grenada Part 2 "Living the Dream" and i have been anchored in Grenada now for 5 nights so far. I had a chance to walk around St George, the capital of Grenada yesterday.  It is an absolutely lovely little city of about 30,000 people, but feels significantly larger due to the enormous cruise ships that come in daily and the hundreds of boats/ships/yachts of all sizes that