Chicago Tug

I know this is late in the game, but we are gradually realizing that another summer with Carrie Rose is about to commence. And slowly we are...

  Charlotte and I and our friend Gertie went to the British Virgin Islands in January. It was my idea. After getting home in one piece from ...

                      Due to various orthopedic anomalies, we decided, at the last moment, to risk a trip to and a summer on Carrie Rose. Th...

  Our last night on Carrie Rose was spent tied to Atlantic Boat Company’s (ABC) mooring #5 in Herrick Bay. The mooring ball proclaims that t...

    Let’s see, I was born in 1953 and that would have made me 15 y/o in 1968. During the summers before 8 th  grade and my freshman year at ...

  Seagulls are as rapacious as they are comical. They are communal but completely out for themselves. They whine like wimpy dogs and growl l...

  In the Midwest we are familiar with storms that diagonally cross the country from Mexico to Canada. They engender squalls, thunder storms ...

For 18 years I wrote a monthly commentary for the Chicago Shimpo, a Japanese-American newspaper. It was first published in 1945 after WWII e...

  We have been summer cruising on Carrie Rose for at least 12 years and have owned her since 2003. In that time, we have docked thousands of...

7-24-2024   Chicago was a great place to grow up. There were few cars on my neighborhood’s two-way streets. Only the oil and garbage trucks ...

  6-28-2024   If you would have asked me a month ago if we were going to Maine, I’d have told you we would never get there this year. I was ...