As many of my long-time readers know, I enjoy sailing small boats. As a result, I’ve also read a good deal of literature by and about sailors. Much of this comes from full-time live-aboard sailors or ...

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THAT the man whose true vocation is writing should spend most of his time and strength in doing something else is the strange counsel offered to novices by certain admitted masters of the author’s ...

Clif Everett, part-time soccer player, knew he saw a void in Howard County’s soccer-loving marketplace because he could no longer find a place to play indoors. So in the middle of last year, the ...

If what is driving a person's interest in being an airline captain is “the lifestyle, the pay, and the prestige,” as stated in a recent Viewpoint (AW&ST Feb. 11, p. 58). I strongly recommend he or she ...