Is there an Old School Hipster demographic? Let’s assume it’s a wide strange world and such a thing might be possible. This basic assumption–which is akin to the “primitive notion” that a point defines an exact location in space, according to Wikipedia– leads us inexorably to Bartow, FL. (See previous blog about Climate Change–A Memoir. […]
Karma or Coincidence in Old Florida
Potluck is the name of the game when it comes to dinner companions at an academic conference in a small strange town in Florida. I was in Tarpon Springs for the 32nd annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society conference meeting recently. As I was holding sway with my munchkin–the little people in the iconic movie The […]
Another Florida Project
A hazard of being a watcher, observer and sometimes writer is that I will never be a trendsetter. I chew on the news until it pisses me off and then I state the obvious. Loudly. I cry at old tragedies and stay numb while new tragedies unfold, fade from everyday hubris and Go Fund Me […]
Anything but black and white: Florida voices part 2
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Zora Neale Hurston The trouble with listening to authentic American voices is the certainty that they won’t tell you what you want to hear. In my last post, I wrote that music industry giants Tom Petty, who started out in North Florida and Bo Diddley, who ended up there, […]
Larry Lives!!!
Larry, a White Crested Polish rooster, who may be smarter than he looks has landed on the side of love and luck in the conundrum I presented in the Nov. 16 blog post. (Scroll down blog to see it.) Larry lives with other chickens out in the Florida scrub at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ house in […]