Archive for February, 2010
Charles Dickens: “There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.”
Ernest Shackleton: “Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.”
In the corner of my den, adjacent to my writing station, there sits a barrister bookcase. Inside the top shelf of that bookcase lies a trifling tribute to Charles Dickens. I like Dickens. Although he wrote more than a century and a half ago, I have always felt that he had an uncanny knack of describing people I know. Not his villainous characters. No, thankfully I have managed to avoid them. It’s his comedic characters that I recognize and relate to. Had Dickens lived in present day Malden, I have no doubt that he would have associated with the Malden Yacht Club if only to draw inspiration from the strange assortment of personalities that parade to the mini-park on a regular basis. He might also have used some of our exploits as the basis for one of his books … like the one I am about to tell now. Had Dickens heard this story, his “Tale Of Two Cities” might very well have been the “Sail of Dubieties”. Continue reading ‘Eagles And Ice Floes’ »
Robert Orben: “I got a Valentine’s Day card from my girl. It said, ‘Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!’ Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.”
Victor Hugo: “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
The Groundhog, Splash and Valentines Day …sounds like a wild weekend in the Swedish Hot Tub Bikini Team’s hot tub! Or it least it would have had Splash spotted said svelte sweltering Swedes several weeks ago. But as you know from reading the last post … What?!? You didn’t read that one? Okay, I’ll let that slip this time … but only because it’s Valentines Day. Why don’t I give you the long version of why Splash, The Groundhog, and the Malden Yacht Club menagerie did not spend today simmering in the same Scandinavian stew pot. It all started like this: once upon a time … Continue reading ‘The Groundhog, Splash and Valentines Day’ »