Like Jimmy Stewart’s father in “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington” I always fancied myself a fighter of lost causes. Which … More
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Ron Cunningham is a sometime journalist who used to string words together at the Gainesville Sun before I retired to free lance and blog. If I still had a business card it would read: Ron Cunningham: Trained Observer Of The Human Condition. Because like The Donald, you know, ego.
The spinx and the water
ST. PETERSBURG: This is a city of grand palaces and colorful onion-domed Russian Orthodox churches, of giant mosques and fortresses … More
Everywhere a sign
Signs, signs everywhere a sign. Maybe it’s just me but I have a tendency to look for not-so-subtle signs as … More
Voting on the abyss
I was going to tell you that I am seventy years old and this is the most important election in … More
On the smell of money
And then there was the time Gov. Claude Kirk went to Perry for a little flesh-pressing and back-slapping. Perry being … More
Seeing is believing on I-95
Just when you think you’ve seen everything on I-95 this guy comes along. Traveling north through South Carolina I once … More
If now now, then when?
I’m not crazy about single issue voters. But if there was ever a time to be one, it’s now. This … More
Oh Florida!
(I wrote this review of Lauren Groff’s collection of short stories, “Florida” for the Gainesville Sun.) Lauren Groff disdains quotation … More
We. Are. This. Close
Woke up wild-eyed this morning. Glanced at my Rage-O-Meter. Tweeted my hellbent mob to stand by. Check, check and check. … More
The hurricanes yet to come
(With Hurricane Michael bearing down on the Florida Panhandle this seems like a good time to post this piece I … More
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