I wrote this piece for The Gainesville Sun. Sarah Matheson would have lost her home to fire if not for…
The new ‘history guy’ in town
How GNV is Salvatore Cumella? Well, he wasn’t born and raised here. But neither is Cumella a stranger in this…
Bob Karp’s GNV legacy
Whenever I saw Bob Karp moving around GNV – and that was frequently – he was either on a bicycle,…
On second thought
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold – William Butler Yeats In retrospect I should have known. That ‘Real Americans’…
A movable force
It was water more than anything that devastated North Carolina’s western mountains. Delivered by a hurricane force, it fell and…
Breaking up is so very hard to do
My dearest X. It’s not you, it’s me. Really. I just think the time has come for us to part…
Does U.S. News now control UF’s destiny?
Hey what’s even dumber than hiring a football coach – at a king’s ransom – on the expectation that he’s…
In which I return to the scene of my youthful crime
Well I’m not the kind to live in the pastThe years run too short and the days too fastThe things…
A couple a hours here, there and everywhere
Long story short. After our exotic river boat excursion down the Rhône River we made a death defying decision. We…
A couple a hours on Mount Ventoux
Ok, so I got soft. Glomming on wine and cheese in Paris. Cruising down the Rhône on a luxury river…
