“Words. words. words.” – Hamlet II. ii
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Entropy

Outside my bedroom window I hear the wind Teasing at the leaves Like a lover

Live long and prosper!

Hey, the new Star Trek movie comes out today! I wrote a column in 2006 about my old obsession with all things Vulcan — if you’re interested, you can read it by clicking here: Vulcan Tendencies, and read a brief snippet below: So deep was my identification with Spock’s mind and approach to life, love, […]

Smoke and mirrors in the land of sunshine and stadiums

The Creative Loafing newspaper is running a piece I wrote about last year’s efforts by the County and City to pull together a local land deal in the hopes of landing Red Sox spring training here in sunny Sarasota. The story has enough monkey business in it to read like comedy — and it’d be […]

Smoke and mirrors where there should be sunshine

In less than 60 days, the City of Sarasota will have to cough up a not-so-cool near-$5 million to pay for what turned out to an unrequited school girl’s crush it had on the Boston Red Sox. Last August, operating on nothing more substantial than a hot and heavy “I wanna be your girlfriend” flutter […]

Lean, green, mowing machine!

I woke up early this morning to get a jump on the day. I had an article to finish and a lawn to mow. But the lawn, really just a yawning, sandy stretch of various and sundry weeds, came first. It was early enough to mow without the heat beating down too hard (630 am). […]

MC’s naked reality

For most of my life, I’ve had a love affair with make-up. Like most women, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time and money selecting, buying, and smearing goop of various kinds all over my face before letting myself go out in public. If you’re going for the full monty of make-up, you’ve got mascara, […]