Florida, much maligned – especially recently – excelled on the national stage last night. First, a young man from Fort Lauderdale won on Jeopardy!, then Florida Atlantic University upset Tennessee in the NCAA basketball tournament. Academics and athletics.
Up in Winter Park, poet Billy Collins was visited recently by a New Yorker writer for Talk of the Town, who reported that Collins was happy to no longer be teaching. “Right now, people are ready to be offended,” the poet said. “But I’m always ready to be delighted.”
If only all our New York transplants could be like that.
