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by Diane Lowman (Author)
In the summer of 1979, Diane Meyer Lowman, a nineteen-year-old Middlebury College student, embarked on a ten-week working trip aboard a German container ship with a mostly male crew. The journey would take her from New York to Australia and New Zealand and back, through the lush Panama Canal, to a Koala sanctuary and a Maori Museum.
She swabbed decks and mended linens, navigated not only the Panama Canal, but perhaps more harrowingly the awkward and sometimes threatening mostly male shipboard society and its politics. The voyage would forever change her perspective on the world and her place in it. She left the port of New York a subservient, malleable girl and sailed back past the Statue of Liberty on her return as a more confident, independent, resilient young woman who'd learned to stand on her own two feet even if the roughest of waters.
Author Biography
Diane Meyer Lowman's essays have appeared in many publications, including O, The Oprah Magazine; Brain, Child; Brevity Blog; and When Women Waken. She also writes a weekly column called My Life on the Post Road for Books, Ink (books.hamletlhub.com). She's explored other forms of literary expression in nearly 1,000 haiku poems and many essays about all of Shakespeare's plays. Lowman teaches yoga, provides nutritional counseling, and tutors Spanish. She recently received an MA in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute.
