A Small Break in Between Fishing Seasons

I couldn’t believe it when I logged in to this blog and discovered that my last post was written almost two weeks ago!
George concluded the Dungeness crab season last week. The boat arrived into port one evening and then left again the next to unload the final delivery of crab.  After that, George and the crew all left [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day

On our first Valentine’s Day together, George was fishing in the Bering Sea and I was at work in an office. I remembered today how surprised I was all those years ago when a gigantic bouquet of big red roses showed up for me as I sat at my desk, along with a gourmet box of handmade [...]

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Our Secret Society

Writing and maintaining a regular blog can be difficult.  Before I post anything I write, I ask myself a series of questions: “Is that giving away too much?” “Does that expose her?” “Will he be mad?” “Will she understand that?” “Is that too much detail?”
Sometimes I go back and delete (even after it’s been posted) [...]

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A Crab Season, a Learning Season.

Yesterday in the mid-afternoon, I began to write a post for this blog. I thought it was pretty funny. It was all about what happened after I posted the delivery pictures last week—the way George received word out on the Coast that the pictures were up, and how he made a dash for his computer, concerned [...]

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