title: The Barge of Curiosity
author: Farrell, Jim
description: The Barge of Curiosity - ride it if you want to experience life and love. Share the lives, loves, and adventures of Sandy Roberts, Peggy Mayhew, and Mark Tuttle who are involved in a lifelong love triangle with Sandy as the focus. Meet Maddie Tuttle, described by her mother as, "My primogenita, the little girl who gave me an insight into the Trinity, the little girl who survived the rush of the riptide inside my womb, the little girl about whom I asked, 'Can you love all your children the same, and yet love one more than the others?', my living Alexandra the Mouse, the last family member to see my Mark alive, my beloved Maddie." Read Sandy's story within the story, Alexandra the Mouse and the Wicked Spider. Enjoy Sandy's tribute to James Joyce's Ulysses in the chapter Stately Plump Buck Mulligan. Life, death, love, conflict - the story of three kids riding the Barge of Curiosity from childhood into old age never wanting to get off. You won't either!