My Life in Salvage

By Martha | Published: February 15, 2011
Sadly, I am not a  do-gooder or chronic volunteer type. I won’t go into various excuses for this, except to say that my idea of making the world better is to not lie or cheat or steal, and take good care of my family. I also believe in the virtues of cleanliness. Three years ago, though, I signed up to work at the swap shop on the [...]
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DO YOU HAVE A DIGITAL PHILOSOPHY YET?

By Martha | Published: July 23, 2010
  I’m so excited about my husband’s new book!  Reviews have been fantastic. Life is short and if you are worried that you are squandering your days with surfing and tweeting, your eyes always fixed on a screen– and desperately hoping to find happiness there — this book will inspire you.
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If you want to go sailing . . .

By Martha | Published: July 23, 2010
A few photos from our the Cape Cod sailing trip that I wrote about in this month’s Conde Nast Traveler. We highly recommend our captain, Brad Smith. www.captbradsmith.com
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SAILING CAPE COD — for Conde Nast Traveler

By Martha | Published: July 16, 2010
 . . .  If we’d tried to come by car, we wouldn’t have been allowed to park until after five without a beach sticker. But arriving by boat, the dreamlike Lambert’s Cove and its sandy beach are ours. Brad sets up a halyard on the bow, and we swing on the line like Tarzan, soaring [...]
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Frog Highway — (from Patagonia.com)

By Martha | Published: February 12, 2010
I was recently asked by Patagonia.com to write about a “backyard corridor” experience for its environmentalism campaign. If you don’t know what a backyard corridor is, read on . . .     Frog Highway By Martha Sherrill He was so huge, the biggest green frog I’d ever seen. And he was sitting – utterly motionless — on a stone [...]
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