Classless at the Convention

The Clintons are rocking the house. Biden is sexy and strong. On the whole a classy affair, n’est-ce pas? Except for one thing:

MC Coolidge enters the blogosphere!

Okay, after much nagging from readers and friends and much procrastinating from this end of the computer, I’m biting the bullet and launching my online column — Reality Online! 

I’m blaming Bill (published in the Tampa Tribune 8/26)

In the over-hyped week before Obama announced his VP choice, I shocked myself by realizing I was harboring a secret hope that he’d choose Hillary Clinton. Why this sudden convoluted craving for a Clinton?  I didn’t vote for her in the primaries; Obama’s been my choice all along. So, why this rush of hope for […]

MC Book Signings — July ’08

July 11, 2008 Sarasota News & Books, 1341 Main Street, Sarasota 630 pm July 19, 2008 Local Coffee & Tea, Siesta Key 11 am to 1 pm

A prayer for the living

As published in the Tampa Tribune May 26, 2008. It’s Memorial Day, and I don’t have anyone to remember. No one close to me has died in the service of our country. I don’t even personally know anyone who is currently being paid to protect, fight, and possibly die for his or her country. But […]

Funny money business

In the March issue of Sarasota Magazine, a local business leader spoke about a new campaign to improve the public perception of the business community in Sarasota. When asked how a campaign like that would help, he replied, “People didn’t get to Sarasota by working on an assembly line. They’re entrepreneurs. They’re educated, risk takers, […]

Clinton country

(This was the follow-up column to Blasphemy at the pulpit — ran in April 08.) After finally digging myself out from under the deluge of reader mail sent in response to the Blasphemy at the Pulpit column (where I questioned the wisdom of Hillary bringing her husband back into the White House) … I’m here […]