by Ann Lee Miller | Mar 27, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
At twelve I’d had my fill of Saturday-Sunday cruises, but my family nevertheless stowed fresh water, powdered milk and pasta for a three week sail around Key West and home to Miami on our thirty-six foot yawl—though Dad added the bowsprit and called it forty.... by Ann Lee Miller | Mar 20, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
If chores built character, I’d be a twelve-year-old Mother Theresa. Today, on a perfect summer morning, I stood in Annie Lee’s porthole-less gloom washing last night’s marinara from Mom’s sailboat emblazoned Melmac. Fish bones floated in the dying suds, making me... by Ann Lee Miller | Mar 14, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
In 1970 I was twelve years old growing up on a sailboat in Miami, Florida. Nixon banned TV cigarette commercials, Kent State happened, Doonesbury debuted, and Black Sabbath birthed heavy metal. I crept along the deck behind Mom, fear of discovery quivering in my... by Ann Lee Miller | Mar 7, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
My brother, Boo Boo, materialized in a crib in the dining room in 1964 about the time Dad birthed a boat in the living room. I was in first grade at Shenandoah Elementary. Mom worked nights at Jackson Memorial Hospital, and Dad ascribed to the let-the-baby-cry school...