This is a story of a sailor, myself. After graduating from high school, I went to sea. From the age of eighteen to thirty, I sailed the seven seas, from Cooks Inlet in the north to the Straits of Magellan in the south and as far as the east is from the west. Ive been to fifty-four countries but never saw Canada, though I lived a hundred miles from the border when I was a child. Ive sailed up the Congo River, the Mississippi, and the Amazon. Ive seen penguins, a twenty-five-foot tiger shark, and a Kodiak bear in the wild, and I sang with dolphins. I saw volcanoes, waterspouts, and a giant...