Long story short: Nine hour plane ride from Orlando to Frankfurt. Three hours of tedium getting through security. Arrived in…
Is it me or is it art?
Listen, I’m not an artist, but I have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. If you handed me a canvas…
Commissioners: Light this trail!
Installing lighting along a trail is another effective way to enable safe night use. Trail lighting that is well placed,…
Well shut my mouth…again
Did I ever tell you how I ended up in GNV? Funny story. Well, serendipitous anyway. It was the early…
Like a GNV neon rainbow
With apologies to the Box Tops. The city lights, the pretty lights They can warm the coldest nights All the…
It was like picking money up off the ground
During my 30 years as editorial page editor of the Gainesville Sun I had a habit of calling myself a…
Of war, peacemaking…and music
The war that changed their young lives forever has been over for half a century. But, improbably, their anti-war activism…
Accomplice to the crime
Correction: An earlier version of this blog stated that the section of South Main Street where a cyclist was killed…
What I saw on my Thanksgiving ramble around GNV
On a cool, gray Thanksgiving morning I mounted my bicycle in order to take stock of GNV as we approach…
An explosion of color, creativity and enterprise
In a Gainesville Sun column earlier this year – back when The Sun was still publishing columns, letters to the…
