I like to look at the bright side of life. I was supposed to be spending my vacation next week at a condo on Indian Rocks Beach…but that has been cancelled as I can’t bring myself to be an idiotic, disease-spreading spring breaker. But so what! I can still have an amazing vacation right from home. All I need is to brainstorm some great ideas.

I have more time on my hands due to working at home, so I have been pondering, including pondering about this blog! So a State of the Blog article is in order. Hear! Hear!

So Florida is basically closed and the usual things us Floridians do this time of year are out of commission. But fear not! There is still a lot of Florida exploring to do!

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from Outing magazine dated 1891.

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from Outing magazine dated 1903.

Well, we live in interesting times. Let’s take a look at how the Corona Virus is impacting Florida.

Does anybody out there actually work a 9-5? I think that’s a myth. I think most people work an 8-7, plus commute time. It’s weird that I remember playing video games for hours as a child/man-child and I somehow was able to have time for that.

In February I went to the beginning of Carl Hiaasen’s career, where he teamed up with Bill Montalbano to write three books — Powder Burn, Trap Line, and A Death In China.

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from New York Cosmopolitan magazine dated 1892.

In our quest to preserve and make available as many Florida writings as possible, here’s a public domain piece from Scribner’s magazine dated 1892.

It’s back! The Smithsonian Museum is giving away free tickets to amazing museums again on April 4, 2020. Here’s what you need to do:

Work brought me to Ybor City the other day and, as usual, chickens were everywhere clucking away. So I decided to get some pictures for the blog.