stardatejune07.blogspot.com
The Captain's Blog: 'Doing the Devil's Work' - a novel with good and bad cops
http://stardatejune07.blogspot.com/2015/06/doing-devils-work-novel-with-good-and.html
The adventures of Captain Michael Fitzgerald and Admiral Sylvia Fox. June 30, 2015. Doing the Devil's Work' - a novel with good and bad cops. EW ORLEANS, Louisiana. Female characters sometimes suffer badly. At the hands of male authors. It's something I am struggling with right now, drafting a novel called Jack's Boat. The first half of the book centers around a female character, the second half a male lead. But in Bill Loehfelm's Doing the Devil's Work. A novel on my list to read soon. A mystery cop book.
stardatejune07.blogspot.com
The Captain's Blog: Back to summertime and Seneca Lake living at the VPYC
http://stardatejune07.blogspot.com/2015/07/back-to-summertime-and-seneca-lake.html
The adventures of Captain Michael Fitzgerald and Admiral Sylvia Fox. July 31, 2015. Back to summertime and Seneca Lake living at the VPYC. Adm Fox and I moved back into the Valois Point Yacht Club clubhouse this morning, greeted by arguably the nicest. Weather of the summer. On her mooring at the VPYC. Not hot, not cold. Clear and sunny. Ven the sailboat Crimson Tide. Was smiling down on her mooring in front of the dock. I couldn't see the Spirit of Louise. Ut for the moment. Michael J. Fitzgerald. Prese...
stardatejune07.blogspot.com
The Captain's Blog: Jon Krakauer's 'Missoula' - powerful and disturbing
http://stardatejune07.blogspot.com/2015/06/jon-krakauers-missoula-powerful-and.html
The adventures of Captain Michael Fitzgerald and Admiral Sylvia Fox. June 23, 2015. Jon Krakauer's 'Missoula' - powerful and disturbing. ATKINS GLEN, New York. Jon Krakauer's latest book, Missoula. Is a disturbing tale about justice and injustice in the Montana town from which the title of the book is taken. Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air. And my personal favorite, Under the Banner of Heaven. On the new book shelf at the Watkins Glen, NY public library and available through Amazon.com at this link...
stardatejune07.blogspot.com
The Captain's Blog: Aboard the motoryacht Ziggy in the Erie Canal
http://stardatejune07.blogspot.com/2011/05/aboard-motoryacht-ziggy-in-erie-canal.html
The adventures of Captain Michael Fitzgerald and Admiral Sylvia Fox. May 29, 2011. Aboard the motoryacht Ziggy in the Erie Canal. T JOHNSVILLE, New York, USA. Admiral Fox and I jumped aboard the motoryacht Ziggy. This afternoon. We are crew and will help move the vessel from here in Central New York to Bay City, Michigan. It might be called Brrr City, Michigan, too. E arrived an hour or so before Ziggy. Made it here - thanks to Brother Dan's assistance driving us from Valois. Michael J. Fitzgerald. May 2...
stardatejune07.blogspot.com
The Captain's Blog: 'This Changes Everything' changes, well, everything
http://stardatejune07.blogspot.com/2015/06/this-changes-everything-changes-well.html
The adventures of Captain Michael Fitzgerald and Admiral Sylvia Fox. June 24, 2015. This Changes Everything' changes, well, everything. ALOIS, New York. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. Is a fascinating book to read from a journalist's. Standpoint, full of amazing details about what we can expect - and not expect - in future years as humans grapple (and don't. Grapple) with the fallout of man-made changes from climate change. From the standpoint of a citizen. But I will try, of course.
stardatejune07.blogspot.com
The Captain's Blog: 'The Sixth Extinction' - and guess who is causing it?
http://stardatejune07.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-sixth-extinction-and-guess-who-is.html
The adventures of Captain Michael Fitzgerald and Admiral Sylvia Fox. July 29, 2015. The Sixth Extinction' - and guess who is causing it? ATKINS GLEN, New York. 2014) is about an in-process event on a our planet that likely eventually spells the end of civilization as we know it. Nice thought for a summer day, right? It's also attempts to explain earlier mass extinctions, like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, perhaps the most familiar of all such events taught in schools. Mazingly, by the time. And i...
stardatejune07.blogspot.com
The Captain's Blog: June 2014
http://stardatejune07.blogspot.com/2014_06_01_archive.html
The adventures of Captain Michael Fitzgerald and Admiral Sylvia Fox. June 19, 2014. A two-court tango for anti-salt cavern propane storage activist. CHUYLER COUNTY, New York. Local anti-hydrofracking, anti-propane storage activist Jeremy Alderson of Hector, NY had double court dates Wednesday June 18, the first in the Town of Reading, the second in the Town of Dix. Alderson has been arrested twice for protesting at the gates of the Town of Reading Crestwood facility. And here is a video of Alderson's sec...
stardatejune07.blogspot.com
The Captain's Blog: March 2015
http://stardatejune07.blogspot.com/2015_03_01_archive.html
The adventures of Captain Michael Fitzgerald and Admiral Sylvia Fox. March 17, 2015. St Patricks Day: Whiskey and 'Darby O'Gill and the Little People'. ATKINS GLEN, New York. St Patrick's Day is usually a day of, well, celebration and little work. But most of the morning (and now afternoon) ended up with organizing some short stories for a book/collection Adm. Fox has been itching for me to put together. (I did promise her I would do this, oh, a year ago! Long ago I won't mention it here. He film also fe...
stardatejune07.blogspot.com
The Captain's Blog: First phase of the VPYC rebuild done - next the bar!
http://stardatejune07.blogspot.com/2015/07/first-phase-of-vpyc-rebuild-done-next.html
The adventures of Captain Michael Fitzgerald and Admiral Sylvia Fox. July 4, 2015. First phase of the VPYC rebuild done - next the bar! ALOIS, New York. The first bit of rebuilding the Valois Point Yacht Club was completed this afternoon, just ahead of a thunderstorm, if I am reading the weather radar correctly. ( Santo Crappo! E didn't do a very. Good job. Half the time I looked down from the overlook, a seagull would be sitting on its head. He rebuilding of the bar. Let the summer begin! Presence of Ma...
stardatejune07.blogspot.com
The Captain's Blog: "The Daylight Marriage" - a troubling family potboiler
http://stardatejune07.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-daylight-marriage-troubling-family.html
The adventures of Captain Michael Fitzgerald and Admiral Sylvia Fox. July 26, 2015. The Daylight Marriage" - a troubling family potboiler. ATKINS GLEN, New York. Heidi Pitlor's novel The Daylight Marriage. Chronicles a troubled marriage that explodes in the early chapters. But the novel is only partly. About the relationship between the wife and husband. It also looks at a teenage daughter, a young son and a community. He missing wife - and she is missing as in call-the-police. Michael J. Fitzgerald.
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT