Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
There will never be better beach reads than James Bond books. Post-Ian Flemming the series is either predictable or delightfully absurd, like the movies. But the originals…so exciting! Bond is a relatable guy, lonely and isolated, far from home on a mission for Queen and Country (hey, sounds like a deployment). And he spends a…
Oh, how my heart swoons and is inspired to poetry by my new Sea Shelf…tall and skinny, perfect for Japanese apartments (Pier One’s Emmeline Blue Cafe Shelving). Secrets and seashells on sunset-sea blue Sand-dollars, starfish and shells old and new. My passport and journals in its cabinet It’s perfect and lovely and everything fits! Whoa,…
Visits to Cupcakeries, round one! The Cupcaking Trio started at Vanilla’s Cupcakery, the newest in town (4000 St. Johns Ave., 904.647.7586). We pulled into the lot and parked under an enormous red sign shouting, “CUPCAKES!” That was a good sign (da-dun-chh!). Pacing ourselves, we ordered two to split three ways: 1. Strawberry-Pineapple, and 2. Aztec…
The weather was perfect for driving yesterday morning: clear, hot and dry with little traffic between Jacksonville and Tallahassee, where I was headed for a one-day business jaunt. Every time I drive through Tallahassee I’m impressed by how pretty it is even though it isn’t near any bodies of water—blooming crepe myrtles and shady Spanish…
A common summer tale: It was hot, I was tired and ready to go home, et voila—a parking ticket. It was kindly delivered to my windshield in a fashionable shade of chartreuse, so I returned the favor by coordinating a stamp to go with it. And insulted the tax collector. Hopefully whomever opens the envelopes…
So yesterday I’m chillin at the courthouse on Monday like usual, minding my own business, when a crazy lady came in and tried to make her business my business. Crazy people seem to make a lot of noise coming and going, and I heard this lady coming a long time before she appeared. The courthouse…
The nice lady at the table next to ours took this perfect video for us. I’m not usually that into packaged fun—things like cruise ships, theme parks (other than roller coasters!) or other places that are very crowded and you wait in long lines then enjoy doing whatever they tell you to do—but dinner at…
