As cruise ships go, the Mayflower wasn't a fun one. Twice she set sail from England and had to turn back because her partner ship, the Speedwell, was leaky and needed repair; eventually the Speedwell was abandoned and the Mayflower added the other ship's cargo and some of its passengers to her already crowded hold. A replica of the Mayflower now sits in...
by Jane
Plimoth Plantation, Thanksgiving, and How a Necklace Helped Me Understand Revisionist History (Part I)
by Jane When I was in Mrs. Oostendorp's (to my non-Dutch friends: yes, that really was her name) third-grade class at Sylvan Christian School, we worked together as a class to write a poem about the "first" Thanksgiving—the one with the Mayflower and Squanto and those construction-paper Pilgrim hats, not one of the many other "first" Thanksgivings (some of which you can read...
When we started into this adventure, I approached it as a way to see different areas of the country, and possibly decide where we might like to live. That was assuming that the nomadic lifestyle was not going to be a permanent one. So in my mind I thought that we would go somewhere that we might want to consider and basically live...
On August 1, we moved out of our house and began this nomadic lifestyle. Some things have been even better than we expected; some have been worse; some have just been different. Better Than Expected Small-space living. We've both been pleasantly surprised at how very easy it is to live in 300 square feet—about one tenth the size of our former house. Steve...
