Given the chance, any ant will cheerfully skitter up the pants of any Floridian. It has been written. So it was probably only a matter of time before they scurried their way into my column. On walks around our fair city, I’ve become somewhat inoculated to Floridian ants’ sophisticated feats of engineering. I tend to forget that beneath what looks like puffy mud-balls … [Read more...]
Mama’s Turn: A Trip to the Playground
I recently had the opportunity to travel with three of the best women I know to one of the greatest cities … New York. One of my gal pals’ sons is currently in an off-Broadway show that, in March, will be transferring to BROADWAY! (A Lake Nona High School alumni will be on Broadway, people! AMAZING!) We wanted to support our fellow Drama Mama and her Broadway-bound baby by … [Read more...]
Sunny Side Up: Oranges
People think I’m eventually going to run out of quirky things to write about life in Florida. I’m not even close. Not while I can think of things like oranges. Oh, the humanity! The maledictions oranges secret behind their smug, face-puckering peels sends shudders down my rind. As kids, how many times did our mothers tell us to quit whining and just eat our orange … [Read more...]
Mama’s Turn: Procrastination? D’oh!
Psst … come here, I have something to tell you. I didn’t write this column until the day before my deadline. I procrastinated. You know, the very thing that I always yell at my kids NOT to do. And it wasn’t that I didn’t have time, either. I did. Lots of it. But every time I sat down to write and that blank page stared back at me, I panicked. Suddenly, any other task seemed … [Read more...]
Sunny Side Up: Grass
Mowing grass. I really don’t get the point. Well, I get a lot of little green ones, ha. But I really hate cutting them. My hunch is that lawn servitude evolved over time. A cavewoman thought, Oh, clearings are so lovely. What if I gathered a swath of these delectable little plants and rooted them in front of my cave? She tell husband, “Grunt, grunt, yowl.” Husband … [Read more...]
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