Dateless in Sarasota aka the KitKat Man
Did you know that Sarasota is one of the best cities in the country to be single and dating … as long as you’re over 55 and pulling down $200,000 a year!? I came across that tidbit of information recently in Sarasota Magazine and have been debating moving back to Boston ever since. Actually, I’m […]
Out on a limb for love
Another September 11th has come and gone. Six of them now since the first, and we’re still afraid. Maybe even more afraid. Of terrorists, of global warming, of war, of the stock market. But mostly we’re afraid of each other.
Come on, and take a (nearly) free ride
At 50 cents a ride — about a third of what folks pay in other parts of the country — Sarasota County’s bus fares have long offered local folks one of the few good deals they get in this ever-more-expensive town. Now, the County wants to raise the fare from 50 to 75 cents to […]
No health insurance? Shut up and eat some cake!
While the infamous “let them eat cake” line may never have been uttered by Marie Antoinette, the sentiment is real – and enduring — enough: Why should the well-off worry about the peasants not having enough bread to eat when there’s plenty of cake to go around the palace halls? The story of Antoinette’s casual […]
Leave the bum … take the cannoli
Love lessons, Mafia-princess style: “Leave the bum … take the cannoli.” If you’ve fallen in with a loser (he’s addicted to television, never has any cash, doesn’t like to work), don’t hire your local goodfella to take him for a one-way walk. Just drop the bum like yesterday’s (bad) news and leave him on the […]
Spooksville, USA
This column ran in print in May 2007, but I’ve brought it back from the dead in honor of Halloween and spooks everywhere! Last Sunday morning, after watching Tim Russert hold former CIA Director George Tenet’s feet to the fire on Meet the Press, all I could say was …”Somebody get me a double vodka, […]
Bird nerd
I’ve always been a bit of a nerd. But it wasn’t until recently that I learned I’m not just any kind of nerd… I’m a bird nerd. Yes, the woman whose only prior experience with birds involved those rats with wings they call pigeons in Boston, is now a full blown, hopelessly besotted backyard bird […]
Lunar romance
The mind is a prickly beast. It disbelieves almost everything the heart believes. It takes the heart to task for being foolish. It demands that we ignore feelings in favor of facts. To a large extent, this is a good thing. We can’t run around willy-nilly to the whims of a red, thumping reactionary like […]
A bastion for the blues
Since moving to Southwest Florida nearly three years ago, I’ve been looking for an unpretentious place where you can kick back a bit and maybe take in some live music that doesn’t invoke Lionel Ritchie. It’s a lot easier said than done.
The nerve of some dames
She’s got some nerve, that Helen Mirren. Wins all the major acting awards, shows up at the Oscars looking hot. Puts the 50, 40, and 30-somethings all to shame. And the 20-year olds? They looked like so much fluffy cotton candy about to float away next to Mirren’s rock-solid, sensual self. Helen Mirren, a bona […]