Remembering youth sports without adults
Recent South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports about kids’ sports were disturbing. Parents punching other parents, spitting on referees and cops called …
Monthly Archives: November 2013
From Here To Eternity and Fort Myers Beach
I was sitting on the lanai this morning reading The News-Press when I noticed the obituary of Rose Pavese Pacelli. …
My Favorite Munchkin
Maybe it’s not fair to single out one Munchkin from the 100 or so who appeared in “The Wizard of …
A Boy Called Ry-Ry
The man on the phone sounded drunk. That was my initial reaction. I was wrong. I soon realized he was …
A Boy Called Ry-Ry
The man on the sound sounded drunk. That was my initial reaction. I was wrong. I soon realized he …
Awful Florida Football
The state of our state’s professional football teams is even sorrier than deadspin.com portrays it. And that’s saying more …
Remembering the Evening Independent
The first newspaper I worked for published its final edition 27 years ago this month. That was the St. Petersburg …
My JFK Assassination Connection
On the day of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination I was in Mrs. Acevedo’s second-floor, fourth-grade class at Rio Vista …
