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 […]
Box turtle? … only on birthday blog #4
OMG — I’m not usuall prone to using acronyms like that, but this newest twist in my never-ending fabulous birthday is so WICKED cool.
Aging extravagantly … birthday blog #3
Whoo hoo! My day just keeps getting better and better. I’m receiving an extravagant number of wonderful birthday messages from so many people. Call me goofy, but
Beethoven on a birthday … birthday blog #2
A few weeks ago, a man invited me out on a date for April 4th,
Intruder at the bird bath … birthday blog #1
I’m one of those wacky people who LOVE their birthdays. I don’t really care that much about getting older (just don’t ask me how much older I’m getting! ;)) but I do care about having fun on April 13th. Which, by the way, is also the birth date of my adopted felines, Einstein, Coco, and […]
The perfect outing on April Fools Day … laissez-faire … lazy fairy … laissez-aller!
Oh, if there really are magical-power-imbued fairies running around loose in Sarasota, they’ll tap me with their magic, star-tipped wands and clear my calendar for tomorrow night so I can go catch the closest thing to the real thing
Sarasota Magazine/BIZ 941 “restructuring” … when does the bleeding in local media stop?
Jiminy cricket. When does the bleeding in Sarasota’s media world stop? Word I heard from the street earlier today that Jeff Lawenda, former Executive Publisher of Sarasota Magazine and BIZ 941, had been let go — was just confirmed in a telephone conversation with Tiffany Soukhaphaly at the magazines’ offices. “We’ve had a restructuring,” Tiffany […]
Remembering Ardren
Tonight, around 5:30 p.m., the Pelican Press newspaper was tossed from a car driving by, and landed in my driveway. From somewhere in the recesses of my mind, for some reason, I thought “Oh, good, I get to read Main Street Beat.” As soon as the thought came into my head, of course, it rushed […]
On Siesta, life’s a beach
I’m not a sun worshiper by any stretch of the imagination. I slather on a 45 SPF just for a walk from my front door to the mailbox. When I first moved here a couple of years ago, I think I had an innate suspicion of the nearly-naked, let it all hang out mentality of […]