My Trip to the Trop

May 30, 2016

After more than half a century that initial game day glimpse into the green ball fields and tiers of stands …

Gimme Eat: How Books Have Shaped Me

May 26, 2016

We are the products of what we read. Yes, few people read. Few people care about books. Few people appreciate …

May 20, 2016

The 80th anniversary of the Sanibel-Edna St. Vincent Millay fire nearly slipped right past me. It was a hotel inferno …

May 18, 2016

A Southwest Florida Historical Society event at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates here in Fort Myers seems like an …

May 15, 2016

Oh, how I loathed evaluations doesn’t come close to stating my true feelings for this corporate evil, this blight on …

May 11, 2016

I’m still reeling, a week or so after my mom told me something I found as unsettling as ants in …

May 8, 2016

The Tampa Tribune is no more. The St. Petersburg Evening Independent, where I worked in the 1970s and 1980s, is …

May 4, 2016

You’re Donald Trump and you’ve never endured a moment of self-doubt. You don’t know introspection from Inspector Gadget. As an …

May 2, 2016

The thought flashed through my mind on a recent visit to the Lakes Regional branch of the Lee County Library …