A thank you to those who make Independence Day special
The 239th Birthday of the USA is now history, and a great group of people in Marathon made our local celebration one of the best ever! For...
Water, water everywhere…and you might want a drink after reading this
I’m sure you might have heard that South Florida has been experiencing a pretty rough dry season. Lake Okeechobee levels are falling to dangerous lows, and there...
Pivotal moments that define a lifetime
The door opens… do you go through?
Philosophers (amateur, professional, and inebriated) have debated the reasons for this thing called “Life” for millennia. As soon as we were...
There are 3 types of people who should NOT read this column
Don’t say I didn’t warn you…
I got a lot of compliments from readers about last week’s column (“American Exceptionalism sans actual intelligence”). There are, however, people who...
American exceptionalism sans actual intelligence
Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, a Pulitzer Prize winner (and remnant of what once was one of our great newspapers), once wrote a column called “Losing the...
Candidates Say The Darndest Things
Well, the Midterm Election of 2014 is but a distant memory as Congress and the President come together to make government work for the average American. You...
Bowl me over and deflate me
Super? We’ll just see about that …
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or in a cave far from any modern communications technology, then you know that...
#KeysDisease: Reflections on a musical inspiration
The anniversary of Dan Fogelberg’s passing during the holiday season reminded me of the first time I heard his song, “Same Old Lang Syne.” In 1980, I...
#KeysDisease: Which song by the Eagles are you?
Regular Facebook users with the average share of “friends” are no doubt familiar with much of what’s forthcoming in this week’s column. Keeping that thought in mind,...
#Keys Disease: From Greek Mythology to Booty Like a Cadillac
“You consider me the young apprentice, caught between the Scylla and Charybdis…” – “Wrapped Around Your Finger,” the Police, 1983
“She got a body like an hourglass, but...
