Socializing chez MC
Last night, I had a few people — men and women — over for food and drink and conversation. I’ve been so crazy-busy the past year, it seems as if I just never take the time to be social anymore, so last night was wayyyyyyyyyyy overdue.
Best blogger and braggin’ ’bout it!
What a great way to start a long weekend. Sarasota Magazine editor Pam Daniel let me know the wall plaque recognizing me as “Best Blogger 2010” — according to the magazine’s Readers Poll earlier this year — was ready and waiting for me to pick it up at her office. So I swung by, said […]
Local boys, hot babes, and fast boats — it’s Super Boat Grand Prix Time on the Suncoast!
The Sarasota Herald Tribune is running a piece I wrote on three father and son teams who are battling it out in the wave breaks off the beaches of Lido Key this weekend. You can read it in today’s paper — in the TICKET, page 4E — or online at Boys and Their Boats. I […]
Pelican Press — where Reality Chick started — Picks Up Press Awards
The Pelican Press — — the weekly Sarasota newspaper that gave me my local start in column writing when the editors there began running my Reality Chick column back in 2006 — picked up four press association awards recently in statewide writing and editorial contests. County reporter and all-round news hound Stan Zimmerman nabbed first […]
Talk to me, baby, tell me all about it
Got some burning issue about Sarasota that you’d like to talk about? Want to give the radio waves an earful with your (no naughty words) opinion on anything from the BP oil debacle to the restaurants going dark all over town to what you think will happen in local and statewide elections in a matter […]
O, Oprah, say it ain’t so — what’s the intention of her reality?
I’ve watched Oprah plenty of times. I’ve read her magazines. For the most part, I dig her sensibilities if not always her interviewing techniques. So, when I heard she was quitting her show, launching her OWN network, and giving regular Joe’s and Josie’s a chance to have their own television talk show — I thought, […]
MC is SO not a Scenestress (not that there’s anything wrong with being one)
Okay, folks, I’ve had enough of the inquiries about whether or not I am the woman behind the anonymous “Scenestress” column that runs weekly in the Creative Loafing newspaper. She’s not even that anonymous, for crying out loud; the clever author-girl’s ID is well-known among the scenester circles of SRQ society. But still — for […]
“Stand-In” Dads helped me make my life
The Sarasota Herald Tribune published one of my columns today — “Stand-In Fathers Show What Makes a “Real” Dad” It’s on Page A18 of today’s paper, or you can read it online by clicking the hyperlinked text above. Happy Father’s Day to all fathers — the biological ones as well as the ones who nurture […]
Thrashin ’round on a Saturday afternoon
I just have to share this photo of the little guy in the back yard. He’s such a cutie.
MC’s Guide to Showing Your Dad Some Love
Hey, I’m happy to report that the Sarasota Herald Tribune is running a piece I wrote on things to do for this coming Father’s Day. The story appeared in today’s paper in the TICKET section; page 6E if you’re an old-fashioned get-the-ink-on-your-hands kind of person. Click here Celebrating Dear Old Dad to read the story […]