Question about coffee from North Carolina via email: I just got back from a trip to Seattle/Portland, and have decided I need a new manual [coffee] grinder. I remember you had a very nice one when I ...

In addition to the usual spate of questions I get at the breakfast table about life as a lighthouse keeper, someone asked navigation question: What is a daymark? A daymark is a distinguishing shape a ...

Last night marked the solstice, the longest night of the year. People gathered at the lighthouse, and we built a fire in a chimenea outside on the deck. Hot soup, mulled wine, spicy hot chocolate.  To ...

I wonder how many keepers kept written logs like that when the job was more common.  Maybe you can find earlier versions of you from a century or two ago. Initially, I was inspired to start keeping a ...

In answer to a question, I recently posted that the lighthouse has a total of "thirty-nine steps" (which is also an Alfred Hitchcock movie). However, an observant reader pointed out that I failed to ...

How many stairs to the top of the tower? No doubt this counts as a Frequently Asked Question. It's uncanny that the question has been asked by fiction-writers on two separate occasions. Each author h ...