Happy Bastille Day — something for Sarasota Francophiles!
In honor of Bastille Day, I wrote about petanque in today’s Sense and the City column — out today in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune TICKET (next to last page!). Or you can read it online at Playing Petanque a Simple Pleasure for Sarasota Francophiles.
Pelican Press Stan “the Man” Zimmerman Ousted by Observer Group
As most of you know, the Observer Group (of the Sarasota, Longboat, East County Observers) purchased the much-loved island-and-beyond Pelican Press newspaper a couple of weeks back. Word on the street was that axes would soon be swinging … and at least one has already swung. Highly respected and gazillion-award-winning shoe-leather newspaperman Stan Zimmerman was […]
Transformation Magazine
Have you ever heard of Transformation Magazine? I hadn’t … until a woman who heard me speak this past spring at the Democratic Club of Sarasota Wine & Cheese Lecture Series, sent me a link to an article she’d written. You might want to check out the magazine’s site and this article: Gathering at the […]
Parking meter parody song from 107.9 Sarasota — too funny
Click on the link below to listen to local radio 107.9 WSRZ’s send up on the parking meter situation in Sarasota a la Lady Gaga Parking Meter Send Up — compliments of WSRZ — just click on the unbagged meter on the page when it opens. (photos above courtesy of www.morningcrewshow.com.
Thems fightin’ words! …. MC’s counterpoint to Grimes Chutney review
David Grimes is a funny guy — I read him in the Sarasota Herald Tribune every week, but when he recently gave a less than glowing review of my favorite restaurant haunt — Chutney’s on Hillview … my inner grrrrrrlllllll game out. You can read my counterpoint to the Grimes review in today’s Sarasota Herald […]
Ending homelessness? Adam Tebrugge spells out a plan …
Adam Tebrugge is going to be talking about the Ten Year Plan to Prevent & End Homelessness in Sarasota County this Saturday — July 9th — at the Sarasota Yacht Club during a noon luncheon meeting of the Democratic Club of Sarasota. The folks getting behind this ten-year plan are motivated and passionate about solving […]
Sarasota parking meters suspended!
Yowza — parking meters suspended by Sarasota City Commissioners — read the Herald-Trib story here.
Sarasota libraries hold keys to independence
I’ve been going to the library since I was ankle-high to a grasshopper … here’s my take on the connection between libraries and a democratic, independent America in today’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Page 11A if you’re a print reader … or you can read it online by clicking here: Libraries and Independence. And if you’re close […]
Falling for fireworks
Read about my love/hate relationship with the Fourth of July — in today’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune TICKET or online at Falling for Fireworks
The Buck starts here
If you haven’t seen the new documentary, Buck — I highly recommend it. It sounds like it’s about the horse whisperer and the equine world, but it’s really about life and how our life circumstances do not have to dictate who and what we become. Well, that and also how to treat a horse … […]