A bag lady’s legacy
A little over a year ago I wrote a column about trying to make the transition from plastic bags to cloth bags only (see below). I’m glad to say that it’s been months and months since I’ve forgotten my cloth bags when grocery shopping. I consider this change a present to Mother Earth and encourage […]
Salvaging the season … with a little karmic reinvention
Behind in your holiday shopping? I’m not big on consumerism, but if I had to recommend you shop at one place in Sarasota, I guess it would have to be my favorite haunt – Sarasota Architectural Salvage, located at 1093 Central Avenue. Owned by local Sarasotan, Jesse White, SAS isn’t so much a salvage yard […]
Sexy at any age
My walk on the beach night before last reminded me of all that I love about Sarasota … Sarasota is a little like a woman on the other side of thirty-eight: still gorgeous enough to beguile on looks alone; but with an alluring maturity that captivates all who see her. We all know Sarasota’s got […]
New Year’s … past and present
Last night, I walked along Siesta Beach — something I rarely take the time to do. I meandered … mosied … along the water’s edge. Nudged seashells, watched some kind of dive-bombing kind of bird — not a pelican … had the tail of a swallow, I thought. Stood in sun salutation with a ragtag […]
Bush immortalizes his legacy in two simple words: So What?
Somebody else is talking about G.W.’s legacy – and if you missed it on World News last night, you’ve got to read this transcript of Martha Raddatz’s interview with him. His admission to Raddatz that al Qaeda wasn’t in Iraq until after the U.S. invaded that country kept me up last night with a sick-to-my-stomach […]
The difference between disloyalty and dissent
This work was written in October 2006 — it’s the only column the Pelican Press ever refused to run in my Reality Chick column space, though they did run a slightly altered version in the op/ed pages. ————— Friday, September 27, 2006. High Tea with Sandy and Vern Buchanan. At the Ritz. With extra-special guest, […]
Dodging shoes? Surely a bit better than dodging bullets.
I don’t know, geez, I felt a little sorry for George Bush. For about a nano-second. Dodging shoes? Not so much fun as you close down your faux-presidency. But I guess it’s a helluva lot more fun than dodging bullets without a Kevlar vest and getting up close and personal with a roadside bomb while […]
Bush League
This column first appeared in 2006. An article in last Sunday’s New YorkTimes on money and class issues in America got me thinking. Our country’s class systems used to run along lines that while certainly financially based were also at least partially skewed by education, lineage, a good backhand, and knowing how to spoon soup […]
I’m a sucker for the season …
I’m a sucker for the holidays. Most of the year, I’ve got my nose to the proverbial grindstone, but the holidays bring out the kick-up-your-heels side of me. I mean, really, from a female perspective, what’s not to love? You get to dress up. You get to show a little skin. You get to wear […]
Café chess — très sexy
Here’s a column that ran in 2006, but today, I’m so jonesin’ for my life in Boston, that it feels apropos to post. —————————- I spent this past Monday morning, a holiday, lazily finishing what was left from the Sunday NY Times. Sitting outside, a cup of Joe percolating through my veins; the day, the […]