Woulda … coulda … shoulda
Today, if I’d stayed married, I would have been married ten years. But I didn’t. Stay married, that is. The only one of my siblings to divorce, yup, that’s me — little black sheep of the family. I left the man I’d promised to love and stick with through thick and thin. Keeping the first […]
My head is an organ for burrowing …
Excuse my borrowing of Thoreau’s words to title this column … but if that isn’t an apt passage for being a writer I’m not sure what is. But it’s more than just being a writer, his words are evocative of the human experience — at least if that experience involves an examined life. As homage […]
How best to serve those who served? — MC appears in today’s Herald-Tribune
The editors at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune are running a piece of mine in today’s (May 23) paper. It’s a column about my experience working at a veteran’s homeless shelter in Boston. If you pick up a print copy, you can find it on page A12 in the op/ed section. Or, you can click through on […]
MC’s Friday morning musing on romance
I’ve been around too long to believe anymore that a kiss, or that initial first flush of attraction, no matter how much it knocks your socks off, is an indicator of long-term compatibility. I’m old-fashioned enough to believe that attraction – whether short-term lust or long-term love – has to be grounded in shared intellectual, […]
The best damn thing since All the President’s Men
If you do one thing … watch one thing … think about one thing … this Memorial Day weekend … make it worth your while: watch State of Play — the BBC miniseries. It’s the smartest thing you’ll see or hear or think about it in, oh, probably, the last several years, at least. With […]
Small dog, big life … I want me some of that!
Is this NOT the cutest book cover you’ve seen in some time? I’m a sucker for dog books, but I’m even more of a sucker for a dog book that has a typewriter on the cover! I’ve read the book — it’s very funny. If you know a dog lover, or if you’re one yourself, […]
Tropical Sex Wave
Had a date last night … the guy who was taking me out picked me up in the early evening for my first-time ever experiencing WMNF’s annual fundraiser — Tropical Heatwave held in and around the Cuban Club up there in Tampa/Ybor City. So, the guy picks me up in the early evening, and off […]
Obama’s moral compass is askew
In his decision to block the release of photographs showing U.S. troops abusing prisoners, President Obama not only flouts the separation between the executive and the judicial branches, he neatly ignores the moral compass of which he has spoken so highly in the past.
Tonight … on Florida This Week (Channel 3 WEDU Tampa)
I’m NOT going to be on Florida This Week tonight … sorry! But I will probably be on again in June sometime. Still, tonight’s show is bound to be fascinating (yes, even without moi!), so curl up in front of your favorite big screen with a glass of vino and tune in. I’m sure they’ll […]
Facing reality? MC Coolidge lands a print gig!
Just when my fingernails were slipping from that freelance-free-for-all precipice, the Creative Loafing newspaper swooped in and offered me a paying gig. It’s just once a month, so basically, it will keep my cats alive … while I’m still diving dumpsters.