We mark time with anniversaries. And, yesterday, David and I celebrated two big ones as guest speakers to the Probus Club of Muskoka Lakes, in lovely Bracebridge, Ontario, namely: the fifth anniversary of the exciting May 18th publication of my memoir, Ready to Come About (Dundurn Press), and the unforgettable May 21st of seventeen years ago when we cast off the dock lines in Hamilton Harbour to set sail for the North Atlantic Ocean. This would become one of the most pivotal days of my life.

“Thank you, Inia, for taking us far and keeping us safe. Godspeed, my sweetheart!” (Excerpt from the acknowledgements in Ready to Come About)