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The Night The Shrimp Ran

The Night The Shrimp Ran

by Ann Lee Miller | Apr 8, 2016 | Blog, Coconut Grove FL, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat

I stood on the aft deck, rising and falling with the bounce of the boat, letting the cool night air slough off sleep. Pier 1 glowed like a Martian ship was about to land, but only stars spattered the sky. Our neighbors buzzed along the pier armed with a bevy of bare...
Pint-sized Maritime Explorers

Pint-sized Maritime Explorers

by Ann Lee Miller | Jan 29, 2016 | Blog, Coconut Grove FL, 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...
Dad’s Dreams

Dad’s Dreams

by Ann Lee Miller | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat

  Sun winked off ice piled high as our T-shirt necks. Grins split our faces. Our knobby knees pumped full-tilt for the mound of “snow” the Canfields had scored at a Miami ice house, loaded into the back of a pickup, and dumped in the marina parking lot.  ...
Dad’s Dreams

Dad’s Dreams

by Ann Lee Miller | Jun 19, 2015 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat

Sun winked off ice piled high as our T-shirt necks. Grins split our faces. Our knobby knees pumped full-tilt for the mound of “snow” the Canfields had scored at a Miami ice house, loaded into the back of a pickup, and dumped in the marina parking lot. The five of us...
Tin Can Keno Summer

Tin Can Keno Summer

by Ann Lee Miller | Aug 1, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat

Photo by Gonzalo Barr Miami must sound more romantic from Ohio than it does when your skin is actually sizzling in Johnson’s Baby Oil under the South Florida sun. I glanced at my cousin Di who re-upped for a second stint on the Annie Lee this summer. She laid tanning...
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