We’re Home! Home to the real World! Home to Family! Home to our day to day responsibilities (and to commuting)! Home to Spring (in time to plant our garden)! Home to new experiences! You can always come home again! There’s no place like Home Sweet Home!
Last Saturday I went sailing with my friends David Berger and Guy deBoer (pictured). If the name Guy deBoer is unfamiliar to you, mark it well as he will be world famous at the end of next year when he (and his boat Spirit) will be the first American solo sailor to win the around the World Golden Globe Race which starts in France. David and I ar …
If you’ve ever telephoned or Zoomed with me lately you’ve probably heard the chickens. Well, Key West is over run with chickens. Legend has it that once cock fighting was banned they were released and the rest is history (there is early morning crowing and chicken poop everywhere as they run free). After a while one becomes inured to them (for b …
I recall my last pre pandemic hand shake with my Mate Andrew Ambrose. Since then I have religiously refrained from doing something which comes so naturally and can mean so much. I even wondered if the ritual would go out of style and be relegated to the rubbish heap of history. Then we got vaccinated and the thought cropped up. Would I shake h …
My birthday was Tuesday. Years are the mile markers of life! Thank you Erin McKenna (and Guy deBoer and Joanne) for allowing me to mark another year (pictured-Erin McKenna photo). My goal is to, at least, reach Key Largo and who’s to say? With Juice Plus (Shelley Simpson), Tequila (5:30 with Bergers), massage (Jill McFadgen), before Pilates Pila …
I never think of myself as a snob, but then I got to thinking about biking. I flat out love biking on my basic 1950s era “2 wheeler”. The type on which I learned to bike ride way back when. My problem is that where I am everyone bikes, but many pedal tricycles and the sight of a man wearing a helmet tooling along smoking a cigar on a tricycle …
We did not cut the line(a subject for another day) and Joanne and I received our second Moderna vaccination on March 7th and we are patiently waiting out the safe harbor, post shot period before re-emerging and being out and about! Thank you Dr. Carla Fry, your nursing student cadre and The College Of The Florida Keys for stepping up in the vaccina …
We are at a loss as to understand why Charcoal barks at some passing dogs and not others. She’s a little dog, but she packs a wallop barking loudly indiscriminately at big dogs and small dogs as they pass. Though not all dogs! Yes, she is territorial and she’s watching over us, but I can only imagine what the neighbors think. Is it the sex …
Cold beer on a parched throat Plopping down at day’s end A shaded beach nap A cooling dip in water A clever rejoinder A thank you The scent of a flower A welcoming smile Words of encouragement A loving relationship A creative moment An unmasked breath of sweet fresh air!
How often do people talk to us in code? They have an intention, but they try to cloud or cover it in rhetoric. A perfect example is the obnoxiously directing request “why don’t you?” In superficial code this means “I want you to do the following, right now!” Well, I’m fed up. I’m no longer going to play along. I’m either going to respond with an …
The definition of mailing it in is to perform a given task, duty or activity with little or no attention, effort, or interest in actually doing something, ie, doing it in a perfunctory manner. For example, a key player on the gridiron, the team star running back, “seems to be mailing it in this afternoon.” This is distinguished from a reporter e …
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I start this blog without any idea as to where it’s going or how it’s going to end... All I know is that I need to know what’s going on? Thank you Marvin Gaye for your inspiration and timeless plaint! Maybe that’s all there is and it’s for you to answer! What’s going on for you?
Joanne and I are above the 65 year old threshold to qualify for an appointment to get The Shot. We are on an appointment list and I’ve been on a vaccination appointment website twice too early in the morning to get on another list and I just called a special number to get on still another list. I even complained to the Mayor! So, despite our bet …
When did takeout food morph into takeaway? To me just because we are suffering a pandemic it’s still takeout. Is that what they call Old School? Am I not With It! Don’t we still just pull up and take It out of the store? Then there’s the question as to what It is. To me it’s food that we eat when I bring it home. Then there’s the question as to w …
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