S/V SARGASSO: Herland

Still in Marathon.

For the small fee of 22 dollars you can park your dink at the Boot Key City Marina, have access to laundry, showers, and one pumpout. Water is extra. There is a meeting area with booths for TV watching, a wall of wall sockets and tables for computer plugins and wifi, a place for incoming and outgoing mail. Kids doing homework, folks doing chores. A sail loft and areas to do your own boat work. Nifty place. A mile and a half walk gets you to the grocery store, the post office, Home Depot. Taxis are awesomely cheap. We were cart loaded with groceries trying to call up a taxi when an older woman said, "if I get a sandwich can I come sit here?" We were in the entrance of the store which had one bench where we set up to wait for the taxi. I said "what?" She "I have to get a sandwich to take my medicine and hoping there'll be room", I finally understood and said sure, we were just waiting on a taxi. "Who'd you call?" she asked. "We haven't got through to one yet" said Jack. "Give me your phone, I'll call one for you, they'll come right away." And sure enough one did just that. What a great gal, she was. Taxi drive was great too and only charged us $4.00!

So I found this book this morning while waiting for laundry called "Herland: A Lost Feminist Utopian Novel" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. At the turn of the twentieth century she was writing a monthly magazine and if she was alive now it would be a blog!
http://www.biography.com/people/charlotte-perkins-gilman-9311669 check her out, she's quite remarkable.

"Herland" is about 3 men lost in "the distant reaches of the earth" where they encounter only women. They can't believe that this civilized country contains no men so go looking for some. I haven't started it yet but will keep you apprised. Gail, when I can it will be mailed to you.

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