When I lived in Hawaii I loved the sea. Not being good at surfing, I took up kayaking in about 1981, when my wife Barbara and I met Ann Fielding, a marine biologist well known in Hawaii for her books on Hawaiian fish and her adventure tours.
Category: Family/Friends
Stories related to my family and friends; some of whom are no longer…
Dissed Off
Dissed is a lovely word, originally Jamaican slang, but I play with it a little here. I have been dissed a lot recently. Let me display the ways:
Downsized
Downsized means smaller, shrunken, poorer. Maggie has downsized this week. She was sheared from her normal full-size mass of unruly maggie-shagginess to a new svelte style: cool, velvet-coated, sleek. She shed Age too- she looks 3 years old, not 13.
Myfanwy
This is a love story. Myfanwy was my mother. Myfanwy (Muh-van-wi) is a Welsh girl’s name, from annwyl (“”beloved” or “sweet little one”). Myfanwy is also the title of a hauntingly lovely Welsh folk song; which, as sung by Welsh massed male chorales, moves my back to shivers and my eyes to seep.