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Fears. We all have them. And we’d sure like to banish them, eh? Our culture supports derring-do. We thrive on it. We make documentaries about people who face their fears....

Why I’m Having Coffee With My Fears

You might think someone planning to sail across oceans might be afraid of storms, pirates, or running aground. But as Colin and I prepped for the next phase of our...

Adventure is a Muscle That Grows Stronger With Use

My body flooded with adrenaline and I bolted up in bed. “Delete it now!” I said. “It’s a phishing scam. Don’t touch it! You didn’t accidentally click, did you?” Three...

Victoria Did, Indeed, Have a Secret

The Time Traveler’s Guide to 1851: Women’s Undies Edition If you swoon for a good period drama full of 19th century dresses, from Bridgerton to The Gilded Age, you may...

With What Eyes Do We See the Soul?

Once I’d finally accepted that the only way to get Rulloff out of my head was to write a novel about him, I assumed the best way forward was the direct...

Getting to Truth, Through Fiction

Once a seed like your great-great-grand-uncle murdered a bunch of people gets planted, no matter how much you want to ignore it, you're powerless against the enormity of the questions...

It Takes a Villain to Make a Writer

I didn’t start out to write a book about a serial killer—never consciously chose the darkest corners of the soul as a neat place to spend years of my life....

2021—Here We Come

You don’t need reminding that 2020 brought a heap of surprises. For the crew of Pristine, the year meant a series of unexpected pivots.

Sometimes the Real Adventure is Getting Home

Just ask Ernest Shackleton. True, our Baja Bash didn’t involve icebergs or Southern Ocean storms, but the name of his ship could have been the theme for our more recent...

Love From La Paz

For Colin and I, the tectonic shift of Covid-19 revealed itself slowly, then all at once. We were a week away from departure for the South Pacific when Tonga closed...

It's Go Time

Even if you’re not a sailor, you’ve probably heard that a tidy boat is a safe boat. That whole place for everything and everything in its place kind of thing....

Putting the Awe in Awesome

It was my first shift of our first night passage in six months and for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what was just ahead.

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The Prisoner's Apprentice (Audiobook)

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