MILES TO GO: SMARTEN UP, SUCKERS, THIS IS EMBARRASSING
An email that arrived on Valentine’s Day this year caught my eye — then raised my blood pressure.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, nearly 70,000 Americans lost...
MILES TO GO: I WAS WRONG; LEAD THE WAY
I was skeptical at first, cynical even.
Forced fraternization with 15 strangers? Impossibly enthusiastic facilitators? Tedious team-building exercises? Not really my thing.
This program, this Leadership Monroe County thing,...
MILES TO GO: SUMMERS ‘DOWN THE SHORE’
I realized during a conversation with a coworker the other day, I’ve never spent a Fourth of July in Key West. I’ve lived here for 23 of...
MILES TO GO: THIS MAY CHANGE YOUR OPINION OF ME
In the interest of full disclosure, and as a longtime and (hopefully) trusted news provider in the community, I feel I should reveal something deeply personal about...
MILES TO GO: ALEXA’S ULTERIOR MOTIVES
Let me get this straight.
Giant corporations can activate listening devices in millions of American homes as often as they're willing to pay for it. But high school...
MILES TO GO: HAVE CAT, WILL TRAVEL
I did a double take while driving down Packer Street the other night. A woman in workout attire was walking briskly with a leash in her hand....
OPINION: AN AMERICAN’S TAKE ON THE ROYAL SENDOFF
Well if that wasn’t the longest funeral in the history of the world.
Television news teams around the world claimed Queen Elizabeth II’s recent death “shocked a nation.”...
MILES TO GO: PACK IT IN FOR HOLIDAY TRAVEL
(Note: This column originally appeared in the Keys Weekly’s latest Holiday magazine. available now inside local businesses and online at keysweekly.com.)
Ah, holiday travel.
This is when things get...
MILES TO GO: KIDS CAN’T CATCH; I’M CONCERNED
I'm concerned. This is a problem.
Kids can't catch. Seriously.
It's bad enough they can't write in cursive, read a map or count back change.
But they can't CATCH. Anything,...
MILES TO GO: WHAT’S IN A WORD? (AS MANY POINTS AS POSSIBLE)
“Ajou” is not a word.
Well, not in English, anyway. (And the existence of an Ajou University somewhere in Korea doesn't change that fact.)
Glop, however, IS a word....
