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 an unrequited school girl’s crush it had on the Boston Red Sox. Last August, operating on nothing more substantial than a hot and heavy “I wanna be your girlfriend” flutter […]
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 the lawn, really just a yawning, sandy stretch of various and sundry weeds, came first. It was early enough to mow without the heat beating down too hard (630 am). […]
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, buying, and smearing goop of various kinds all over my face before letting myself go out in public. If you’re going for the full monty of make-up, you’ve got mascara, […]
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 blogging category in the Best of 2009 issue that just came out this week! I just found out yesterday and honestly, am kind of stunned and more than a little […]
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 the hot, hot, hot “topic du jour.” And, while not exactly big league, Sarasota had certainly become big bucks in the years I’d been living in Boston. Familiar landmarks — […]
In Sarasota … the haves and the have-nots
The Sarasota Herald Tribune ran a piece of mine today. You can read it on page A10 or simply follow the link here: In Sarasota, gap widens between the haves and the have-nots. Here’s a snippet: Yes, a lot of people made a lot of money, and most of it was done with little regard […]
MC Coolidge Wins Florida Press Association award! Yippee!
Most of my life, I’ve been known for being WAY too serious. I’ve been notorious among ex-boyfriends and ex-husbands (of which there is only one) for never getting the punchline of jokes. I always said things like, “Huh? I don’t get that.” To which they would usually shake their heads and say,”Lighten up!!” If I […]
Snakey-behavior
I’m always saying what a jungle my back yard is. Here’s today’s visitor: