How to Survive Sports Talk in Florida
“To avoid these embarrassing situations, it’s best to have a few sports clichés to stymie these conversations quickly.”
Sell Your Car and Buy a Pool – It’s Florida
“There is nothing like coming home from the beach, hot, sweaty, covered with a layer of sand, followed by jumping into the cool clean water…”
Getting Your Zen On – How to Meditate While Exercising
“Both exercise and meditation are beneficial, of course. Exercise keeps you healthy and alive while boosting mood-upping chemicals. Meditation keeps you from losing your mind among the clutter of day to day mental-junk-collection, which causes you to fixate obsessively on the mundane.”
Fort Myers Beach Bans Plastic Straws
“Restaurants might grumble a bit at first, but I think eventually servers will take pride in being a part of wildlife preservation.”
Big Agriculture and Big Development – The Everglades Under Fire – Pt. 3
“Clean water and respect for living creatures should not be a political issue. It should be a common sense issue. However, when short-term gain overrules long-term collective wisdom, the environment unfortunately suffers. The Everglades are still under fire, but not in a good way.”
The Historical Flow — The Everglades Under Fire – Pt. 2
“The family farm is more of a rarity today; most of this land is owned by corporate farming operations. And if the farms are indeed family owned, they are huge businesses … Agribusiness lobbying, especially corporate sugar, are historically engaged in stopping — or at least impeding — restoration efforts.”
The Storms — The Everglades Under Fire – Pt. 1
“Such is the nature of the Florida Everglades: ironic, complex and symbiotic by design and always under fire.”
Fort Myers Beach is Alive and Well after Hurricane Irma
“It is a good day at Fort Myers Beach, just like it should be. I am shocked at how fast Floridians recover and Fort Myers Beach is just an example.”
