Friday evening, driving past a restaurant downtown, I caught out of the corner of my eye a basketball game on one of the TV screens. The next evening, walking on the beach, I saw people in a bar watching a football game. It's hard enough here, thanks to the weather, to remember what season it is; now televised sports are adding to the confusion.
Are the people who were tired of politics as usual weary yet of a president who isn't presidential?
While I sat with my mother in the hospital, my regret at not having children to be with me in my final days was replaced by relief at not having children to subject to that ordeal.
When I was a kid I looked forward to summer because it meant a break from school. Now I look forward to summer because it means a break from school shootings.
While in Seattle I had the great honor and pleasure of appearing on Nancy Pearl's "Book Lust": http://www.seattlechannel.org/BookLust?videoid=x91504
32 East is closing its doors, after almost 30 years on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach, to be replaced by Louie Bossi's.
For years my complaint about Ft. Lauderdale was that practically every new restaurant was an Italian restaurant. Now something more irritating is happening in South Florida: practically every new restaurant is an already existing restaurant. It used to be that every main street had to have a Kilwin's; now apparently each will have a Louie Bossi's, a Rocco's Tacos, and whatever the local iteration of Big City Tavern is. In the age of diversity, South Florida - at least its culinary scene - is embracing uniformity.