You are invited... to a Blog Christening!
Good Morning! This is the first attempt at posting my wild and crazy adventures in an online format so everyone can keep up to date with the excitement. I don't want to leave anyone out of my story telling, so this seemed like the most logical way to communicate with everyone without suffering carpal tunnel syndrome. As pretty much all of you know by now, I will be sailing to the Persian Gulf in the next little bit. And will be lucky enough to be exploring some beautiful places along the way. As this is a first for me, and not a common experience, I figured you all might enjoy 'tagging along' with me for the journey. Please be forewarned that the entries in here won't always be Rated G, nor will they always be sunny or entertaining. This site will act most closely like a personal journal - that you just don't have to sneak a peek at, cause I'm baring it all, honey! There is also the ability for anyone who wants to send me messages to do so through the comments option on this Blog. Just be aware that everyone else will also be able to see what you have to say to me too - so try not to incriminate us too much :) Feel free to share this link with as many people as you like - this is meant mostly for my Mom, because well, let's face it, she's a mom and that's what mom's do. But also remember that since this is such a public way to communicate, I will not be able to give you specific dates or timings of places I'm going to... To use the old (and sometimes over used) saying, "Loose lips, sink ships." As fun and exciting as this trip is, it is not a 'trip.' I am going to a hostile place with a strike group, so too much information can cause a lot of lives grief. Well, I have very high hopes for this site... especially since I can actually access it while on ship - unlike my Yahoo Blog. So yes, we will no longer be using that site as it has become too much of a headache. So, I suppose the only thing left to say now is, "Welcome" and I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoy writing!
posted by Corrina at 8:54 a.m.
5 Comments:
Okay, so you made Mom cry(and I am at work!) I love you kid and am soo proud of you. Right now I am a bit verklempt....talk amongst yourselves.
Mon Sep 04, 01:57:00 a.m. PDT
Hey Corrina,
Best wishes to you. We are proud of you and what you've accomplished. We're off to Holland for a visit, but we'll keep checking how you are doing.
Love Irene, Jeff, Erin, Matthew, Samuel xxoo
Mon Sep 04, 05:57:00 a.m. PDT
This is amazing, just amazing.
There's a bench in the river valley, C, with an inscription that reads, and I'm paraphrasing ... "don't tell me how rough the seas ... did you bring the ship home?"
Peace
Sun Sep 17, 07:34:00 a.m. PDT
Corrina, I met you at the Turnbulls' a few years ago, it's Ellen. Mary sent me your blog...I can't blieve you are doing this! You are so brave! It will be quite a life
event for you and all who love you....in a way you have hitched us all to your wagon.... since we are all going to be there with you, would you please remember to duck? Oh and don't be too brave either!! Bon Voyage!!, Ellen.
Sat Sep 23, 08:36:00 a.m. PDT
You know that I am a refugee from the sixties -- a flower child. The closest I've ever come to combat is being tear gassed on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the late sixties, early seventies. When things got nasty, we ran. We'd parked the car off campus and we were home in fifteen minutes.
I have been watching with great interest the doings at the UN. It's Koffi Annan's last few months -- his term is up at the end of December I believe. That's where my hope lies. He commented in his speech that the global view has been heady stuff (not his words, but that's what he meant). Yes. You can see what the problems are, the trick though is to solve them,without needing the other guy dead. Without terrororizing absolutely everybody that breathes. The remedies for the kind of ignorance that breeds terror take a long time to 'take'. A looooong time.
So you know, I wish you and your mates weren't bouncing along over the beautiful briny sea ... I wish ALL of our missions were mending, building and steady marches toward improving the lot of the world's population without putting our brightest and best at risk -- and I don't mean just the countries with the goods that the western economies need, but ALL the countries. No hesitation. Whattdya need Haiti, and how much is left in the kitty, Koffi, after saving Darfur?
So you might know that I still believe, that with our love, we can change the world. However. If you go ashore, please don't be handing out candy. And head's up for old men on bicycles. In Afghanistan, they have figured this out and are blowing us up for our trouble.
I salute your courage -- and ask the Good Lord Harry for a smidgeon of the same courage he gave your mother simply to stand beside her and well, siphon a little. He gave her WAY too much ...
I'll be keeping an eye on the UN for you while you're away and if you wake up one night to feel the ship turning around -- go back to sleep. They'll have figured it out.
Peace
Sun Sep 24, 07:56:00 a.m. PDT
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