Lisa Cach

I was hired to teach a writing workshop aboard the MV Explorer in December, 2011, during the ship’s voyage through the Caribbean and up the Amazon River. The Explorer spends most of its time as the ship for the college program Semester at Sea through the University of Virginia, but twice a year it h

In December 2011, I boarded the MV Explorer for an Enrichment Voyage through the Caribbean to the Amazon. I’d been hired to teach a writing workshop onboard, and as part of the course my students — ranging in age from 8 to 80 — contributed to a community voyage journal. This is that journal. Three [

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  And the winner is…. Green Darner Dragonfly! I’ve sent the image to SDOT for preliminary approval. In the meantime, Annie McCall and I will work on coming up with a cleaner, more polished image. Once we have that image and the preliminary approval from the city, it’s going to be a group effort. We’