Syracuse No, Manhattan Yes
Yesterday was Sunday. I spent the first four hours finishing this week’s KONK Life column. Making of a Star. Re Tom Cotton. The young U.S. Senator who wrote the letter to Iran signed by 46 Republican...
View ArticleT.J. MAXX COMES TO KEY WEST
I really enjoyed a slow day yesterday. Started with the anti-gravity treadmill. Next Lee Nails for a manicure and pedicure by Tammy. Then home. Never left home the rest of the day. Watched some TV and...
View ArticleHAPPY FATHER’S DAY!
Happy Father’s Day! Always nice to see the day come around again. Unfortunately, I do not think fathers are treated and revered as in days’ past. Something is different today. I hear it from every...
View ArticleTRUMP…..GOD HELP US!
Indiana pretty much sewed it up for Trump. Good for him! Bad for America! I fear he is going to go all the way. The campaign will be dirty. The end will find him left standing. The four years following...
View ArticleNILE CROCODILES
There was a time when no one contemplated Burmese pythons would be living in South Florida. And in such large numbers! Hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Experts say the Burmese python will never...
View ArticleAGGRAVATION FREE TRIP TO CUBA
Though relations are better with Cuba, a U.S. trip to Cuba still involves some aggravation. Not for Fleming, however. He even traveled free. Fleming is a turtle. He was found injured last year and...
View ArticleCONNIE GILBERT
Key West makes claim to many interesting diverse persons. Recently unfortunately, several have passed on. One sunday. Connie Gilbert. Connie was a Key West resident some twenty years. Made her...
View ArticleFIRST THANKSGIVING MEAL
The first Thanksgiving meal was not as it is today. There was neither turkey, bread stuffing, cranberry sauce, potatoes nor pumpkin pie. Thanksgiving dinner has evolved! The date of the event...
View ArticleI LOVE STOCK ISLAND FEST
Well…..It was a great day! I never want to eat again! Thanksgiving dinner at Lisa’s with the family. Lisa out did herself! I ate it all! Filled my dish twice. Made up for three weeks of dieting. We ate...
View ArticleCHRISTMAS IN AMERICA
We are lucky this year. Two Christmas days. Yesterday, the actual holiday. Today the day after, a legal holiday providing workers with a day off. For me, today will be a screw off day. Not sure at this...
View ArticleTHE THORNTONS…..HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
Jean and Joe Thornton…..Happy Anniversary! Forty years! The event was celebrated with a small group of friends last night at Berlin’s. Janyne one of the party. Bria payed Jean and Joe lovely...
View ArticleMOLASSES FLOODS BOSTON STREETS
Key West is accustomed to street flooding. If a rain fall is heavy and it is high tide, the sewers cannot take the rain water. Intersections become lakes. Some as deep as two to three feet. Hurricanes...
View ArticleA TALE TOLD BY AN IDIOT
One thing about Trump, he is consistent. His every move screws up America! The most recent was yesterday. He removed the United States from the Paris Accord. The climate control agreement involving 199...
View ArticleWORLD WAR II RATIONING…..PUBLIC’S PART IN WAR EFFORT
The U.S. has had boots on the ground in 17 different countries since 9/11. Military involvement. Too much by any measure. One of the reasons our country easily goes into these different countries to...
View ArticleTARIFF WAR WITH CHINA BAD FOR U.S.
Respectfully, most things started by Trump end up being disasters. The immigrant children the most recent. Soon to come, a tariff war with China. If the war proceeds as presently described, a disaster...
View ArticleBIKINI BORN
This day in 1946 a significant one regarding female beach attire. The bikini was born. A two piece bathing suit. Skimpy. Exposed the navel and much of the buttocks. Available female bathing attire...
View ArticleKEY WEST CITIZEN SOLD
Rumor has it the Key West Citizen has been sold. Formal announcement of the sale is expected tuesday. The purported purchaser is the Adams Publishing Group. A family business headed by 80 year old...
View ArticleMOONING
Is it mooning or the finger that best expresses one’s feelings on occasion? I must confess I have extended my finger a few times. Never mooned, however. Twenty three year old Peter Kehoe mooned last...
View ArticleAMERICA’S SEXUAL RECESSION
Would you believe…..America in the midst of a sex recession? It is. Responsibility falls upon teenagers and young adults. Less sex apparently better. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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