Key West Back in the Day

Lately my female friends have been sharing tales of contemporary dating, from the joys of new love to romantic disasters — which, for me,...

Well before the internet, when Key West bars were our “chat rooms” and waitstaff spread news faster than Twitter posts go viral today, the...

It was just a pair of scissors, tiny and worn. It looked like my old beat-up nail scissors, sitting incongruously in a display case...

For many years, an outline of my posterior adorned the upstairs bar top at Bagatelle, the lower Duval Street restaurant that was a high-rollers’...

Working with Michael Whalton was never boring.  He was one of those incomparable people whose efforts in the 1980s left a lasting imprint — who...

When Jimmy Buffett wrote, “I’m goin’ down to Fausto’s/get some chocolate milk” in his 1976 classic “My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I...

During Key West’s “bad old days,” the scariest thing I ever did was drive a malfunctioning Toyota truck across the old Seven Mile Bridge...

Before Key West earned its reputation as a must-visit tourism destination, there was a waterfront bar and restaurant that locals made their own —...

Back when I was a 20-something hippie enchanted with my Key West  home, my friends and I had a lot of time on our...

Key West is a great place to be a dog.  Still true today, that statement was particularly accurate in the 1970s and early ’80s.  Back then,...