Ange can’t sleep. She tosses and turns and worries. About her daughter Lily’s grim future. About the dead chicks they…
Cross and double cross
Impressive things I saw on my trip to Russia in the summer of 2017. The Kremlin. The Hermitage Young couples…
Graveyard of ‘heroes’
(Wrote this in the summer of 2017 for the Gainesville Sun. Still relevant today.) Stalin’s got a busted nose. Shattered…
Gainesville’s strong compact
I love this town. I know, I’ve been saying that for years. But I’ve never been more enamored of Gainesville…
Out out damned blot!
Like Jimmy Stewart’s father in “Mr. Smith Goes To Washington” I always fancied myself a fighter of lost causes. Which…
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…
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…
Voting on the abyss
I was going to tell you that I am seventy years old and this is the most important election in…
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…
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…
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