Last chance to vote in Best of Suncoast
In case you’re interested in voting for me in this year’s Creative Loafing Best of the Suncoast readers poll — you’ve only got a couple of days left. I think the deadline is Sunday night. Then, they announce the winners sometime in October. I’m eligible for Best Local Columnist and Best Local Blogger — but […]
Autumn sunset chez MC
Tonight, I took a break from a massive website project I’m working on and walked Boomerang. I was barely out the door, when I had to scoop him up and run back inside for my camera to capture this outstanding, beyond-beautiful and lovely autumn sky. As I snapped a few shots, something moving in the […]
September segue
All those years of living in New England have fixed my internal calendar to interpret September in only one way: the romance of fall. I was born in the spring, but I’m a fall baby at heart. It’s the time of year I feel the best; a time of optimism and fresh starts. A time […]
The dogma of dogs
I have a love/hate relationship with seeing a car go by with a dog poking its head or sometimes its whole upper body out of a car window. Head raised, ears flapping back, often a tongue hanging out flopping in the wind. I sometimes wonder about the safety of letting dog’s do this but I […]
Civilities
I dance around you like a firefly — caught in the hand of June; made wary by a past that haunts the present, and fuels civilities. I flail and fall through impolitic coupling — as alone then as later; listening to the blues or meeting your friends, I murmur civilities. I feel most honest when […]
If you want to hear MC’s opinion
. . . on everything from lizards mating to the kissing statue on our bayfront to my theories on clipping coupons, shopping at my local Publix, sex in the morning, and going with fewer martinis every week . . . have a listen at the link below! You can laugh, at least, at my goofy […]
MC on WSLR Wednesday, September 16
Hey! MC will be on Two Early In the Morning — tomorrow, Wednesday, September 16th from 9 to 10 am. Call the studio at 941-355-4540 between 9 and 10 and ask any question you like … of me … or Two Early In the Morning host Francis Scheuer. Whatever you want to comment/ask about — […]
Pileated woodpeckers … visit MC
September 11th … remembered
This is a column I wrote in 2007 … entitled 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 […]
Blood-letting
Her hand, a small one according to standards she’s never been able to meet Says, “Look — she is here; let the inquisition begin.” (If she’s told one lie, she’s told ten.) Fingertips poised ready to draw true blue then drop à point to be read once bled. The vellum almost an admonishment: She had […]