A former neighbor of mine had been an attorney for GRU. Once, a long, long, long time ago, I asked…
What’s that smell? It’s not money
One of my favorite Claude Kirk stories is that time he went to the paper mill town of Perry and…
Time to rescue the Matheson House…again
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…
