Jean Ribault was The First Coast’s First Tourist. The French explorer made landfall, on April 30, 1562, where the placid…
Our most dangerous act
Imagine you are hurling through space and time. Perhaps you are running late. Or you have a long way to…
Paying for our excesses
Happy New Year, I suppose. I hate to end 2018 on a sour note, but somebody has to say it. …
It’s Florida Jake
And if you think this is bad, wait until 2019!
Brunch on two wheels
Sunday brunch has gotten to be a big deal in Gainesville. And what’s not to like? Mimosas. Eggs Benedict. Meeting…
High tides, dry grass
“Oh, of course I’ll keep it to myself. Until the water reaches my lower lip, and then I’m going to…
Guns, students and 1968
When it came out that Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President of the United States, in 1963, with an Italian…
Density is our destiny
(This was originally published in The Sun in the spring of 2015, but it seems especially relevant today given the…
Only kidding Gainesville
A lot of folks like to think of Gainesville as being a progressive university community. But, really, we’re a typical…
Child of the Anthropocene
I am a child of the Anthropocene. In my lifetime I have leaped, not just from one century to the…
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