Lessons I learned while living 10 years on a sailboat

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Life Happened While We Were Making Other Plans: 

Lessons I learned while living 10 years on a sailboat 

In 1980 Janis Couvreux and her husband, moved onto a sailboat, eventually setting sail two years later from Bordeaux, France, with a 3-year-old and an infant. With no precise plan or regular income, their voyage and life onboard stretched into 10 years, abruptly ending with their arrival in Bodega Bay. Armed with experiences and knowledge gleaned from crossing oceans and living on four continents, Janis nevertheless sometimes admitted defeat yet reveled in occasional triumphs as she realized that adventures and misadventures will conspire relentlessly to humble or raise one’s spirits. Yet still today she is struggling to accept that “life is what happens while making other plans.”

BIO:

Janis Lasky Couvreux is an award-winning writer, journalist, Franco-American, lover of languages, travel and adventure addict, sailor, mom, and grandmom. Formerly a newspaper reporter and freelance journalist, Janis is currently blogged at Huffington Post, Pryme Magazine, and The Lady Alliance, writing about living bilingually, crossing oceans, backpacking adventures, and raising kids outside the box. Some of Janis' vignettes were published in Luna Luna Magazine, Longreads, and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, and she won the first place Adult Nonfiction award at the 2017 San Francisco Writers Conference.