According to The Art of the Sailor, baggywrinkle is handmade chafing gear made to protect the sails of a ship. Aside from being a fun word, "baggywrinkle" carries me back to my earliest days in the Coast Guard on the Eagle with Chief BJ Whitley bellowing directions to us, clueless swabs that we were. Chief Whitley could bellow and direct as well as any drill sergent or Marine gunny....It was a formative experience; I really do remember this fondly.
Writing has certainly been an outlet, a sort of cahfing gear to my own progress through this life. So, for now, Baggywrinkle is a good name and purpose for my blog.
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