Joe Noonan lives in the ocean. Well, he fishes, swims and takes people out to swim with wild dolphins every chance he gets. His entire life is consumed with his number one passion - dolphins. I told him he ought to share his ga-zillion photos with the world on a regular basis, and through more than just his website. So we came up with “Love from the Sea,” a weekly photo of the dolphins, fish and sea creatures he swims with and his life in the ocean. It’s free. …

“When the student is ready, the teacher will come.” The cliche is old, but true. Anna Jackson was ready for a teacher, but not for the oysterman. But then teachers aren’t always what they appear to be.
“Be kind to strangers for unawares, you may be entertaining an angel.”
John Oysterman was a man of the sea, a wise man, a nut job and 100% enigma. He was part Yoda, part Donald Shimoda, and part Mr. Miyagi. If you know the genre well, then you recognize it merely brings the hero’s …

“One of the oddest things in life, I think, is the things one remembers.”
― Agatha Christie
About this time of year in 1974 I was laying on my belly in a field somewhere in East Tennessee with machine guns going off all around me. I was in the middle of an ROTC Army Ranger field exercise. My M-14 was stretched out beside me and I was dressed in faded green fatigues. The day was perfect - sunny, mild, clear. I was in the woods and in my element and having …

No picture has torn at my heart more than this one taken last month after a woman’s dog broke its leash and ended up in the water off of what looks like a very chilly pier. A German tourist strips to his tighty-whities and jumps in the water to save this small dog. I know MY heart would have been breaking if I’d been this distraught woman. But the stranger rescues the dog and I assume, gets warm and dry as well as a hug!
Anyway, I put the photos …

If you are the average Christian, or have been exposed to the average Christian version of Christmas, and the birth and in the manager and Noah and the flood, your basic knowledge of God, the Bible and Christianity goes something like this:
God created the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh day which is Sunday which is why we have to go to Church one day a week. God made Adam. Adam got lonely, so God took a rib out of his side and made …