Bonita Springs – “BORN IN THE USA!” (What? Why is Bruce Springsteen screaming at me?) Waking up from a deep sleep, I roll over and switch the obnoxious clock radio off and check the time… 6:20 in the morning again. Time to go to work, again. Sitting up in bed I rub my eyes and [...]
Bonita Springs – A few weeks ago, while meeting with our Representatives in Tallahassee, I noticed a photo of a group of fishermen next to a large shark hanging in the hallway on the way to the Senate offices. I stopped in the crowded hallway, looked closely at the picture and then down at [...]
Bonita Springs – Yesterday, I was standing in front of the building on Old 41 where I grew up. What used to be our family’s hardware store on the first floor is now a bakery. The second story, where we lived for many years, is now abandoned. The building has been remodeled several times over the [...]
Bonita Springs – Black Locust Trees are beautiful, but they have a habit of splitting in two at the “Y” in the trunk. So when the incredibly large specimen on our property in Georgia began splitting in half, Lori and I began formulating a plan to save at least half of the tree. The plan [...]
Bonita Springs – You would think that since I’m a native Floridian and an avid boater, that I would also be able to waterski. You would be wrong. Quite a long time ago my friend John tried to teach me and after dragging me the length of the Imperial River several times behind his boat [...]
Bonita Springs – In 1975 I took a trip to Kentucky with a friend who wanted to visit with his relatives. Before the Dukes of Hazard, before I decided to cut my shoulder length blonde hair…bell-bottom jeans and all, I spent a week in Hazard, Kentucky. Despite my apprehension, when we got to my [...]
Bonita Springs – “I don’t think I’m going to have Thanksgiving at the house this year… It’s just gotten to be too much work.” I took the phone down away from my ear and looked at it suspiciously. My mother, on the other end of the phone, was apparently offering to surrender the family tradition [...]
Bonita Springs –“Come on Joe… Let’s go camping this weekend,” I pleaded over the phone in my preadolescent voice. But Joe couldn’t. He was in trouble from our last camping trip. I was determined to go anyway, so I went downstairs into our family’s hardware store and asked my Dad if he would drop me [...]
Bonita Springs – Our dogs Molly and Winston have become old dogs. Molly is graying, overweight and cranky. She waddles around the house like an oversized stuffed pepper, eating anything she can find. Around 7 pm she stares at my wife and me until one of us picks her up and puts her on the [...]
Bonita Springs – Yesterday at lunch an employee of mine told me that all four of his children, all under the age of 10, each had their own iPad. Yep… that’s what I said too! “That’s NUTS!” He put his hands on his hips and looked at me like I was 100 years old and [...]
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