MERRY & BRIGHT: LIKE FOOT AND MUSIC, HOLIDAY LIGHTS HAVE ALSO CHANGED THROUGH TIME
Displays of colorful lights are a lovely holiday tradition. Come November, up and down the island chain, they glow and twinkle once the sun...
BALE IN THE CLOSET: AN EVERGREEN CHRISTMAS IN KEY WEST 1981
Maybe I could say Santa Claus left the bale of pot in the living room closet. My middle-class Midwestern parents would believe me if...
A TRANSFORMATIVE 2024: A PEAK AHEAD FOR EACH SIGN
Another new year is rapidly approaching, and, for many of us, that midnight threshold on January 1 presents a blank slate of possible futures....
HOLIDAY MAGAZINE: A McCARTHY CHRISTMAS CLASSIC
Old Man Winter settled in as December arrived in western New York. Snow sprinkled the lawns and the roads as Jack Frost nipped at...
HOLIDAY MAGAZINE: GETTING CHRISTMAS ‘RIGHT’
Something was off. Things were terribly amiss at our friends’ house across the street and I didn’t know what to do.
Everything looked the same...
HOLIDAY MAGAZINE: THE GIFT THAT NEVER CAME
As a kid, most of our Christmases in the Rickert household were pretty epic. In last year’s Holiday Guide, I wrote about the year...
HOLIDAYS 2023 MAGAZINE: HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD
Santa Claus gets credit each year for circumnavigating the globe and delivering Christmas treats to kids everywhere. But the truth is, the big guy...
A HISTORY OF KEY WEST’S LIGHTED HOLIDAY PARADES – ANNUAL HOLIDAY MAGAZINE
The first Key West Christmas Truck Parade began with an insult. Someone pulled up at the bocce courts with a wreath hanging over their...
HOW TO MAKE MONICA’S FAMOUS ‘MOIST MAKER’ FROM ‘FRIENDS’
Our list of leftover ideas would be incomplete without arguably the most famous post-Thanksgiving meal of them all. Made popular by the “Friends” episode...
SATURN AND JUPITER WILL ALIGN INTO THE “STAR OF BETHLEHEM” ON DEC. 21 AND...
On Monday, Dec. 21, just after sunset, Jupiter and Saturn will align and appear as one bright, beautiful star that could, depending on whether...
