The life and times of William Thomas, photographer, writer, bluewater sailor, environmental activist
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CONTRIBUTING TO THE CONVERSATION
After a four month hiatus addressing my cancer diagnosis,
I'm back online. Like the wireless operator onboard HMS Titanic,
I will continue transmitting for as long as I am able.
Hopefully some years longer than the brave Jack Phillips...
William Thomas
NEW POSTS
PROSTATE CANCER FOR BEGINNERS
The two most startling announcements any man can hear are: “I’m pregnant” and “You’ve got cancer.” Both declarations are life-altering. In very different ways. continued...
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STUPIDDITY FOR DUMMIES
The good nooz: You don't gotta be smart to be stoopid! Here are some helpful tips when challenged by a pair of xtra clever bricks... Will Thomas photo
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The life and times of William Thomas, photographer, writer, bluewater sailor, environmental activist
15 min read
Here is an imaginative story of aerial combat between two pterosaurs over Fossil Beach, Hornby Island, 22 million years ago.
8 min read
In this short story we meet "dorable" Samantha, a compassionate angel and a friendly doggie from Tau Ceti. Samantha wants to know if they've come to save the Earth...
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This is my imaginary account of the first meeting between General Robert E Lee and President Abraham Lincoln before they went on to formalize the South's surrender at Appomattox in 1865.
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This poem imagines the first "demonstration" launch of an Oreshnik hypersonic missile against a weapons factory in Ukraine. Because of the late hour, there were no reported casualties from its six kinetic warheads.
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From our earliest beginnings... we are sailors. Follow the first waterborne migrations across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait 100,000 years ago.
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What's it like to take an airplane aloft at the age of 16? Strap in!
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Join me on my first solo sail. I mean my first sail ever. Don't be shy. What could possibly go wrong?
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About This Website
Wow! What happened? Did I press an incorrect button? Say something wrong? My entire website just vanished. Poof! Decades of work wiped from the Net.
On post-freakout reflection, maybe this is a good thing. Maybe all those uploads were becoming a bit...too many? Perhaps it was time for a thorough website scrub.
In this streamlined and updated version of willthomasonline.net, you will find essays, reports, poetry and short fiction dealing with photography, health, prehistory, war and peace, sailing, flight, the Buddha and the awakening of Creation, outer space, inner space and other surprises...
Should be fun.
See you here,
William Thomas
April 2026
(That's an earlier me in my solar-electric outrigged sailing canoe, Electra. -Don Peterson photo)
On post-freakout reflection, maybe this is a good thing. Maybe all those uploads were becoming a bit...too many? Perhaps it was time for a thorough website scrub.
In this streamlined and updated version of willthomasonline.net, you will find essays, reports, poetry and short fiction dealing with photography, health, prehistory, war and peace, sailing, flight, the Buddha and the awakening of Creation, outer space, inner space and other surprises...
Should be fun.
See you here,
William Thomas
April 2026
(That's an earlier me in my solar-electric outrigged sailing canoe, Electra. -Don Peterson photo)
Articles
After departing Vicrtoria, BC in September 1978, this bluewater sailing saga depicts Celerity's passage from San Diego to Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands in 1979.
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Here is an imaginative story of aerial combat between two pterosaurs over Fossil Beach, Hornby Island, 22 million years ago.
Read More8 min read
In this short story we meet "dorable" Samantha, a compassionate angel and a friendly doggie from Tau Ceti. Samantha wants to know if they've come to save the Earth...
Read More8 min read
This is my imaginary account of the first meeting between General Robert E Lee and President Abraham Lincoln before they went on to formalize the South's surrender at Appomattox in 1865.
Read More22 min read
This poem imagines the first "demonstration" launch of an Oreshnik hypersonic missile against a weapons factory in Ukraine. Because of the late hour, there were no reported casualties from its six kinetic warheads.
Read More6 min read
From our earliest beginnings... we are sailors. Follow the first waterborne migrations across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait 100,000 years ago.
Read More32 min read
Join me on my first solo sail. I mean my first sail ever. Don't be shy. What could possibly go wrong?
Read More4 min read