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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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True Tales Growing Up in a Haunted House

October 27, 2018

Have you ever had any ghostly encounters? Each year around this time, I like to reblog a series of tales …

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The Rich and Sensual World of Scent

June 24, 2018

Lately I’ve become obsessed by scent.  Perfume, to be more precise.  I seldom wear it, which is why this obsession …

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Right, at Last, and Wide Open

May 7, 2018

I’m letting my hair grow out. Like a girl again. It’s past my shoulders already, still mostly brown with a …

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Hauntings, Ghosts, & Demons I Have Known

October 27, 2017

As Halloween draws near, I like to repost a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I …

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13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After

October 10, 2017

My mother died seven years ago this month, which is also the month I was born. I wrote a short …

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“Wondrously Strange,” Our Crossing to the Marquesas

August 28, 2017

    I was reading from some of my old sailing journals when I came across this entry. It captures …

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Water with a Razor’s Edge

July 24, 2017

One of my favorite pastimes when we were sailing was watching the wake the boat made slipping through still waters. …

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5 Years Blogging from the Edge of the Wild

July 9, 2017

I began this blog five years ago, in July 2012. It’s been a wild ride, and I’ve loved every minute …

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Learning to Play (Again)

March 24, 2016

I played piano as a girl and always regretted giving it up. Lately the thought that I may never play …

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Living on the Edge of the Ghostly and Unexplained

October 28, 2015

There’s so much in this world that surrounds us that we can hardly fathom, let alone explain. We keep bumping …

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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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