The Crew

The Nauti Professor

Rebecca grew up in Little Rock, AR, as the oldest of three children and the only girl. She is a child of the 1980s, when music was loud, hair was big, and everyone was happy. She graduated with a BA in English in 1992 and an MA in English literature in 1994. She recently completed her dream of becoming a doctor when she completed her dissertation in 2012 and earned an EdD in curriculum and instruction.

She likes margaritas and dancing. The two seem to go together very well. She loves music of all kinds, but her favorite band of all time is Led Zeppelin. She also loves the blues and fancies herself a blues musician trapped in an English professor’s body.

An Aries with the moon in Sagittarius, Rebecca values honesty, fairness, and the freedom to express oneself without boundaries. She also loves a good bawdy joke. She believes that life is a journey that does not last nearly as long as it should.

Her greatest passions are intellectual development and pushing others to find
what makes their heart sing. Her goals are to fund this merry adventure by teaching and supporting education online and by finishing at least one of the books she has started writing.

Her favorite things are making her children laugh and watching her husband
transform old cars/houses/boats/etc. into marvelous works of art that are

practical and beautiful.    

Captain Joe

Captain Joe was born in Oklahoma City but grew up in Arkansas and North East Texas. He has always been one to find comfort and entertainment in doing things outdoors. He is the older of two sons, and his family still lives in Texas. Joe loves to fish and learned from his father and many friends how to catch almost any freshwater fish alive. He has spent the last 3 or 4 years since moving to San Antonio learning how to saltwater fish. Joe and the Professor have two awesome kayaks that they use to fish the shorelines and backwaters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Joe hopes that our posts will tell directly or indirectly not only the story of how we are accomplishing our goals, but also why we are attempting them the first place.

Captain Joe is a Taurus with a moon in Virgo, making him an Earth/Earth. Talk about a grounded personality! :) A good teacher and student with a discriminating intellect (it says so in a book!), Joe is skillful and an artisan. He is a perennial student of life who charts his future with a clear, rational (he likes that word better than obsessive compulsive) grasp of what tasks are necessary to accomplish his quest and enjoy the good things in life.  He aspires to a life of simplicity, usefulness, and harmony.

His favorite things are making the Professor happy. He is so very lucky at how easy a task that seems to be. He also thoroughly enjoys good wine, music, and conversation. It is rewarding to figure out easier ways to accomplish tasks. Part of the appeal of sailing to someone wired like Joe is that sailors, from the very first human who raised some cloth over a log, are always trying to improve either their boat or their skills. 

Nauti Professor and Captain Joe have an old tattered copy of this astrology book that we use to look up personality characteristics of ourselves and friends. This is always done tongue-in-cheek as we are both very science minded, but we also like to believe that there is a spiritual aspect of life on earth that we should all try to understand.