Transatlantic Lit Crit

When favorably considering a Transatlantic passage, few benefit from available literature.

Buckley bores

Cornellia kevetches

and disaster worship, thy name is Titanic

Barring the sudden appearance of pedantic Republican pundits, bed bugs, and icebergs, however, I think we'll have a decent voyage.

How Did It Happen?

My Mom wanted to go on a fall folliage cruise along the Eastern coast of Canada. I wanted to go overseas.

Our Cruise

19 days will be our longest sustained interaction in 19 years.

Linda Montano and Tehching Hseih spent a year tied to one another by a rope back then. Sharing a balcony stateroom for a fortnight seems like a modest accomplishment in that perspective.

More About The Year of the Rope

Welcome to Frequency Hopper

The theory of radio controled devices was not new in 1940, but the notion of frequency hopping was. Actress Hedy Lamarr (who shares the month and day of my birth) co-invented it, demonstrating the brains under all that blonde.

Today, the theory of frequency hopping is the basis for all secure military communications.

More On Lamarr

On these pages, frequency hopping will more or less about jumping out of everyday living into entirely different realities.

Hedy certainly had ideas about that; she changed husbands six times.

We're just going on a Transatlantic cruise.

We'll use this blog to keep our family and friends in the loop.