HeyJaredThis, and now THIS… Postcards from Key West
Dispatches from a tiny island100 miles out at sea, where the oceans are rising, the fish are spinning, the country is going to hell and not losing it moment to moment is a full-time job. No, really. That’s my job.
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Girls Just Want to Have Fun (opens the original)
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Sometimes life is a drag. And thank God for that. What would we do without the glitter, the joy, the fun, the outrageous transgressive art of bursting beyond limits? In Key West, which has welcomed LGBTQIA folks for a long time, drag has been the engine that powers the creativity and the freedom of expression that has made this community so special. And it’s not to be taken for granted. Especially now. So, when this year’s Womenfest held their annual drag brunch, “A Seat at the Table,” I was rea
Last Mango in Key West (opens the original)
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My Boarding Pass to Purgatory (opens the original)
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It was the kind of hotel room you book if you want to commit suicide. Bland. Boring. Blank. I didn’t want to kill myself, but I did want to get out - out of Miami, out of the airport hell I had been confined to for the last two days, onto a plane to La Guardia and on a train at Grand Central taking me to the bucolic Connecticut countryside where I was to spend a week of quiet contemplation at a Zen retreat.The plan was to leave Key West Friday for Miami. From there, I would catch a flight to La
There's Something in the Air (opens the original)
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My husband comes back from a dog walk to Higgs Beach disgusted and visibly shaken. I’m assuming Ozzy got in trouble from trying to hump another dog at the Dog Park, but no. It’s something worse. “I almost got sick out there from the stench” he says. “It’s so bad my eyes started watering. I thought I was going to pass out from breathing it.”I knew he wasn’t talking about dog poop. “The sargassum, right?”He nods. “It’s awful.”Summer in the Keys brings all kinds of warm water visitors, and not just
The Sheep Detective is so Flocking Good (opens the original)
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