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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Sea Saga

Summer Sea Saga, A Dream Comes True

June 30, 2024

With summer blooming all around me and needing time to enjoy it, I thought I’d repost here some summertime favorites. …

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La Gitana, My Larger Self

March 2, 2020

When I first started this blog eight years ago, I had planned on using it as a vehicle for writing …

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Sailing with Kids into the Unknown, Continuation of Sea Saga, Part VI

July 3, 2013

This post is a continuation of the article I wrote about long-distance sailing with children that I wrote long ago …

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Sea Saga, Part VI — Cruising with Kids, Dream or Nightmare?

June 30, 2013

The following is an article published in Latitude 38 many years ago. I’m reprinting it here as part of our Sea …

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La Gitana, Our Larger Self – Sea Saga, Part V

March 30, 2013

We named her “La Gitana,” Spanish for the gypsy, partly in tribute to our family’s Spanish heritage, partly because sea gypsies …

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Sea Saga, Part IV – Ex-pats and Pirates in the Bay Islands of Honduras

October 23, 2012

“This is life in its most eloquent and elemental form—a life worth pursuing,” I wrote at the end of my …

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Sea Saga, Part III – First Stop in Paradise, the Virgin Islands

August 26, 2012

“This is where it all begins,” Dale whispers to me we take off, rising through layers of clouds thick as …

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Sea Saga, Part II – Honeymoon Sail Bailing Water

August 16, 2012

[Click Here for Part I – Catching the Dream] We married on the fly. I had no wedding gown, no …

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Sea Saga, Part I – Catching the Dream

August 6, 2012

The wildest, bravest, and most romantic thing I’ve ever done was to fully embrace my boyfriend’s dream of sailing around the …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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