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Litha Crew Post from February 16, 2022 I've always loved New England because they have distinct seasons.  Seattle has a few weeks of summer, and maybe a couple days of snow.  The rest of the year feels the same.  Around 55 degrees and light rain.  (Although I do miss...

Litha Crew Post from January 18, 2022 I've stopped looking at Zillow everyday.  Tucked into Pickering Wharf feels like home.  I mentioned last month that we have real comcast home internet. and we're right down the ramp from restaurants and shops.  We walk more.  This...

Litha Crew Post from December 17, 2021 I'll tell you what... November was rough.  .... As you can see, since I'm finally writing the November newsletter halfway through December.  Oops. Anyway...  The Good: We moved to Pickering Wharf Marina on November 1st.  It is so...

Litha Crew Post from November 6, 2021 Well, October was completely insane.  Salem had record-breaking crowds this year.  Justin and I were busy nonstop 18 hours a day.  Seriously... 6am to midnight.  We'd get up at 6am, he'd go to work, I'd make the kids breakfast and...

Litha Crew Post from October 6, 2021 Well, darn.  Summer is over.  I really did get used to summer after having 3 years of it non-stop.  If you've followed my posts for a long time, you'll know that winter aboard last year was terrible.  Litha was covered in plastic...

Litha Crew Post from September 17, 2021 Last month I taught a "Mindfulness for Kids" workshop at a really cool healing space/metaphysical shop called Quantum in Seekonk, Mass.  I brought Evie with me as my assistant.  🙂  This is the story I told to begin my class:...

Litha Crew Post from August 9, 2021 I'm not sure if I've told you all our plans for the future, but to catch you up... We're trying to save up a downpayment to buy a house in Salem.  So, here's our thought process on that:  The sailing season here is May 1- Nov 1...

Litha Crew Post from July 9, 2021 We finally left Salem Harbor for the first time in almost a year.  We had 4 extra people aboard as we headed towards Cape Cod.  The day started with beautiful calm waters.  We raised the sails and sat on our bean bag chairs to watch...

Litha Crew Post from June 3, 2021 This photo popped up in my facebook memories recently from 2 years ago. Ack!  I want to go back to being somewhere tropical!   I was pulling Tarot cards for client the other day and Evie walked in while I was shuffling.  She said,...

Litha Crew Post from May 5, 2021 I thought that I wanted the harbor to start filling with boats again.  I thought that I wanted to start talking to people now that the weather is getting nice.  I thought that I wanted to feel less isolated.  Turns out, I'm feeling...

Litha Crew Post from April 1, 2021 Well, if you read Jan and Feb, you know how I felt about winter aboard, but we have been out from under the plastic wrap for about a month now.  I'm starting to forget what it was like to be so depressed and miserable all winter....

Litha Crew Post from March 10, 2021 Well, a Nor'easter blew the shrink wrap off of Litha about 4 weeks earlier than we planned to take it off.  The whole starboard side was exposed and torn.  It wasn't repairable, and if we left it up, the next storm that blows...

Litha Crew Post from February 10, 2021 For those of you here who weren't on my Patreon page, I'll catch you up a little bit about my thoughts from the last few "Lessons from Litha" newsletters from the last months of 2020.  Summary: Living on a boat covered in plastic...

Patreon Post from January 3, 2021 Happy New Year everyone!!!   What I have learned from living aboard a sailboat in the freezing waters of New England in the December.... is that I MISS SAILING SO MUCH!  Aaaahhhh!!!  This whole sitting in one place covered in plastic...

Patreon Post from December 1, 2020 Living in a bubble... literally. We have spent the past few weeks winterizing Litha.  We built a frame out of conduit, added a door, and spent hours and hours wrapping her in plastic and shrinking with a heat gun.  We completely...

Patreon Post from November 5, 2020 Hi all!  Apologies for October's newsletter being a little late.  It was a super busy October for us.  It has been really difficult floating in the harbor when our lives have become so land based.   Each frosty morning, Justin would...

Patreon Post from September 30, 2020 Take The Backroads When we arrived in Salem 3 months ago, we rushed around trying to find an inexpensive car. We purchased a 2002 Jetta Golf for $1100. It runs great... if you don’t exceed 2000 RPMs. That means we can’t drive it on...

Patreon Post from August 21, 2020 I don’t fit in. The past 2 years, I tried to blend, to not stand out. I tried to make it look like I belonged in whatever country we were visiting. For example, I watched what locals did in grocery stores. Thoughts like, “Does this...