SEX & the SEA - Beasty Escapades with a Menopausal Mermaid

My working cover illustration!

Hey y'all! Yes, I'm still alive and fin-kicking around Mexico's Vermillion Sea. I have a special video to share with you at the end of this short catch up. Paul and I are tickled pink as a toxic algae bloom to report that after seven years of hard labor and most of our savings, we have Triplefin essentially the way we envisioned: Blue water ready and powered completely with solar energy. We still have heaps of work to do, including with our ever evolving marriage. The state of the head (that's sailor speak for bathroom) is aesthetically embarrassing but we're ignoring it for the meantime so we can aim some energy on long postponed, creative endeavors. So, what's the big news?

First, I've been hard at work adapting some of these past blog posts (and heaps more stories besides) into an illustrated, narrative non-fiction book with the working title you saw above. The paper-cut illustration (No AI here!) is my working cover. So, amigos, please wish me buen suerte as I begin to send my book sample out to publishers. Better yet, if you know a publisher who may be interested, please connect me. I'll still be sending you a relatively brief yet still absurd & sacred blog post out now and then so you don't report me lost at sea.

Next, this fall I'll be launching Menopausal Mermaid Re-Treats at No Pants Ranch in the Sonoran Desert. I'll be inviting other menopausal women to join with me to harness the overlooked and underappreciated power of this natural transition. This world needs some wise and confident older women to step up and work effectively for justice and I want to be a part of that force for change. As part of this labor I'm joining the literary throngs on Substack so please find me there as The Menopausal Mermaid and subscribe and share. My writing will be similar to the blog but more feral and risque! You can read my short intro piece and subscribe for free right here! Or you can donate a bit and get exclusive content and more for supporting my work. In case that doesn't work try this link instead. (Ugh . . . me and technology.)

Finally, Paul has gotten his head out of the electric engine compartment long enough to begin collaborating with me on a series of YouTube videos that will focus (much like our blog) on our interactions with fascinating yet overlooked species in and around the water. The first video piece I'm about to share is a bit different. It's a walkthrough video of our solar electric system, so not super nature heavy, but we made it wacky and fun in addition to informative for fellow cruisers thinking about going solar-electric. Without further wordiness, here ya go, and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel while you're there and share, share, share, por favor: