These are a few of my favorite...

Photo credit: Paul Silvernail.

A few pals:

Poet Cath Mason
Scribophile online critiquing group

Sailing blog from Ben and Deb
Sailing blog from Rod M
Ice-skating blog and sailing blog from George A 

Marketing insight from Don Blank

Great Local Businesses:
St. Lawrence Pottery in Clayton, NY
Masthead Enterprises in St. Petersburg, FL
Haslam's Books in St. Petersburg, FL


Proud sailing moments on plastic:
Taming the Spinnaker Beast.

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Links:

• "Go home evolution, you're drunk." on Tumblr
• Bird identification jackpot from Cornell Lab of Ornithology. 
• Archie McPhee's Geyser of Awesome
• Watch the stars at Slooh.
• A really cool designer/builder of vintage clothes.
• Persephone Press shows the power of the printing press.

David Sedaris reads from his essay about his brother. One of my favorite paragraphs in all of literature. Oh yeah, potty mouth alert:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExcpcPZKWpU

Totally cute video  -- but it's a porcupine:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dnB3IapeAA

A cheerful home video for Mumsie, who bequeathed her elderly Boston Terrier, Lilly, to me. Lilly, as some may know, was a sinker and abhorred water, but enjoy these guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKkJv47h-2E