Weekly Roundup

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Prayer vigils are often motivated by despair and fear but founded on hope and hope in community. Floridians are scared, so scared that when a top employee of the Miami Herald wrote a piece about Floridans being scared other McClatchy papers picked it up but the Herald did not. I

I started writing this post for December 19, 2025. Then family came to visit, then we boarded a plane and flew to California for a week to visit family, then we boarded a plane and flew to Miami and, well, I never finished the December 19th post. But it had

Introduction I started 2026 with one foot in California and one foot in Florida. Okay, both feet started New Years Day in California and both feet got off a plane Miami on New Years Day (many) many hours later. With my mind on family and friends in California (and the

New beginnings are afoot, or a-wing, in South Florida with the re-opening of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Everglades National Park Visitors Center after it was destroyed by Hurricane Irma in 2017, the press still thinks Florida is a mysterious and dangerous place for all the stupidest reasons, and more in