Chapter 47: Just a sailing groupie…
This summer it felt like everyone was a Swiftie! Parents, children, grandparents - you name it, they were trading bracelets and sharing pics of their concert attendance. This week I…
Chapter 44: Road Trip!
We had a little time off Meraviglia this week to travel to Atlanta. As many of you know, Nick LOVES soccer and has been enjoying playing with a variety of…
Chapter 41: When Your Parents are Very Cool, Actually
Special from Katharine Stephens: Okay, okay, it’s finally time for the other child’s perspective. Ever since Nick volunteered to write a post for this blog last month, my mom started…
Chapter 40: A Light at the End of the Tunnel
Merriam Webster describes a light at the end of the tunnel as a noun phrase defined as a reason to believe that a bad situation will end soon or that…
Chapter 37: Patience is a virtue…
So we continue to move forward through the enormous list of tasks needed to ready Meraviglia to launch. Happily some of our projects on our list have been getting accomplished:…
Chapter 33: In the words of my mother, “It could always be worse…”
My mother, Darlene was diagnosed with osteomyelitis when she was young after taking a bad fall roller skating. She had to endure many surgeries and underwent long hospitalizations in Philadelphia.…
Chapter 31: Daily life aboard a “project” boat…
Sun, sea, sailing, and sundowners every night. Isn’t that what Youtube says liveaboard life will be like??? The reality on a “project boat” like Meraviglia looks very different. Well, except…