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
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 rose by any other name … is a Coolidge!
Do you love growing roses? I have absolutely no green thumb whatsoever … but my brother, Geoff does.
SNN LOCAL News … another thing I like about Sarasota news lately
Since I’m in a complimenting frame of mind … I woke up today and wanted to find out what was going on with Governor Charlie
Sarasota Herald Tribune gets a nip and tuck …
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune may have had a nip and tuck in its recent page trimming, but it gained an intangible avoirdupois.
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
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
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
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
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,
Sarasota Magazine The Best of 2009 Readers’ Poll — MC voted finalist in Blogging category!
Yikes! Yippee! and Yowza! Sarasota Magazine puts on an annual Best Of issue … and guess what?! Yours truly was voted a finalist in the
Swan song … or why I no longer appear in the Pelican Press newspaper
Newspapers are our nation’s first line of defense to freedom. When publications become susceptible to pressure from advertisers, which I believe happened in this case, our freedom — our ability to express and exchange differing, sometimes dissenting opinions, and our ability to learn and understand and make decisions and choices about how we want to practice democracy as individuals and as a nation, is dangerously compromised.
What the heck is this?
Alright. I try to be fairly independent, self-sufficient, but I’m stymied. And I need help! Can anyone help me identify any of the following?
In Sarasota, the gap widens between the haves and the have-nots
(This piece appeared in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on April 27, 2009.) In 2004, when I returned to my hometown roots of Sarasota, real estate was