Drifting doesn’t feel dangerous, at least not at first. The water is calm. The sun is out. The shoreline looks familiar enough. When the current is gentle, drifting can even feel restful. But drift lo...

In the house that I grew up in we had a staircase that had a bookshelf halfway up. It was where my older brother kept his college books when he was studying biology and fisheries management.

He had s...