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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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A Rainy Day in Segovia

July 26, 2018

One of my favorite side-trips when traveling in Europe was the day we spent in Segovia, viewing the Roman Aqueducts …

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Tasting Life Twice – A Traveler Returns

July 20, 2018

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anaïs Nin I’ve just returned from a …

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Dancing Through Time and Space, Pinching Ourselves Awake

June 10, 2018

As you read this, I’ll have flown across the Atlantic and landed in Madrid. I may be strolling through the …

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Romancing Europe – Coming Soon!

June 4, 2018

The last time I was in Europe we were sailing on La Gitana. We came up the Red Sea, through …

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A Slice of San Francisco

April 12, 2018

Last weekend I accompanied my friend Paula on a trip to San Francisco. We stayed in a lovely old building …

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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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Dare I Share? Paintings in Progress

February 21, 2017

Family and friends have been asking me to show them some of the watercolors I’ve been working on, so I …

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A Walk to Point San Simeon

March 19, 2015

Recently my husband and I and friends took our dogs walking out to Point San Simeon, just below Hearst Castle …

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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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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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