Participating, then writing

I mentioned a couple of my own pieces in class last night, which I'll link here. The "first solo sail" piece ran in the Thursday outdoors/travel section of the Post-Intelligencer in 2006.

The New York Times piece last Sunday was on boatbuilding as character building, and was focused not on the adventure itself, but about the larger picture of lessons in life. (At least that's what I intended.)

The New York Times piece received a wonderfully gratifying response. I've had about 40 e-mails from around the country, including an invitation to speak at a business school, of all things, at a college in Virginia. After the solo sail piece, people just thought I was a doofus, which was not incorrect.