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... by Ann Lee Miller | Feb 28, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
Hurricane Laurie gusted across the Gulf of Mexico, 105 mile-an-hour winds gunned for the Glades and south Florida. It was October 27, 1969, and my family barreled across Biscayne Bay under full sail, heading for a Hurricane Hole to wait out the storm. I planted my... by Ann Lee Miller | Feb 20, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
I was an eleven-year-old living on a sailboat in 1969, a year of precarious calm sandwiched between Miami, Florida, race riots in 1968 and 1970. Simon and Garfunkel’s Mrs. Robinson blasted from everybody’s radio but ours because Dad listened to PBS’s moldy...