Papa was right, after all. A ship’s crew was like a family, and together we had done what we never could have managed alone.

She forks up a little nibble and wedges it in her mouth. “Yum,” she croaks.Mrs. Wong looks pleased. “It’s made with tofu.”I can’t resist. “Free-range tofu?”My mother looks over at me sharply. Mrs. Wong takes...

There’s always more to the story, Catriona,” She replied. “That’s the wonderful thing about stories.

Papa taps on the skylight and I look up. He waves at me and smiles. I smile back. For now, I don’t need to know what lies ahead. For now it’s enough just to be...

You need your beauty sleep for tomorrow”she tells us “don’t stay up too late talking”We ignore her of course.The whole point of a sleepover is to stay up too late talking.

Never say ‘I can’t.’ ‘I can’t’ is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say ‘I will’ instead.

Change is the nature of life, Cassidy. Some of it’s good, like new babies being born and children growing up and leaving home and all the new adventures that both of those things bring. And...