Tales and adventures from the semi-tropical and completely imaginary Down Yonder, Florida.
DOWN YONDER, FL. – There’s a mom missin’ ‘round these parts on this Mother’s Day. Oh, she’s not really missin’. We know where she is. It’s just that she’s not walkin’ along the shore or eatin’ supper like the rest of us. And, to be sure, she’s still around. I know that ‘cause I...
The times had changed greatly by that balmy spring morning when Mattie stopped by the old farm house to pay her respects. Martin Luther King, Jr., had preached, led, taught, suffered and died trying to make sure the discrimination and paternalism of the past gave way to a new dignity, new self-esteem and a...
Christmas began, of course, with the birth of a child. Born in a barn and laid in a manger, that tiny infant was a gift to the world; a gift intended to relieve the world of its slavish attachment to itself, to relieve the world of its meanness and self-seeking; replacing those worldly constrictures...
Well, ho-ho-ho, it’s that time of the year again! It’s the time of the year when nearly all Floridians are hailed by their temporary Yankee neighbors with the traditional greeting, “Geez, it just doesn’t feel like Christmas inFlorida.”
Let’s see, doing the math…okay, carry the one…that’s about $7.6 billion additional dollars flowing into Florida and almost 600,000 new jobs. Somehow, I think we’d all say, “yes,” to such a bold investment in ourselves, our communities, our economy, our future.
From Teddy Roosevelt’s Bully Pulpit to President Barack Obama’s embrace of social media, presidential communication tends to define communication as a cultural phenomenon.
It’s not often Crackerbillies are allowed in places like the White House (much less public in general) but July 15th was an exception. Read more about it here.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:That all men are created equal;That they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights;That among these (rights) are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.That when any...
The reason for little quiz is that while many folks like comin’ down here and spendin’ a little time in our sunshine many of those folks just don’t think of our home as home. This is but a place to hang out for a few months in the winter after they will return home.
Christians will end Lent today and celebrate Easter on Sunday. Jews are celebrating Passover. Muslims celebrated only weeks ago the birth of the Prophet of Islam. All three celebrations by the descendants of Abraham have something in common: they are all celebrations to relinquish that which binds us and look to a time of liberation,...
