Farm Boy
Editor’s Letter: June 2019 The instructor in my college Intro to Reporting class was divvying up beats, and we wanted the good stuff. This was the first opportunity for us…
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Festive Your Way
Editor’s Letter: December 2018 Around the holiday season, there are two kinds of people in Fort Lauderdale. There’s Publix eggnog people, and there’s Winn-Dixie eggnog people. (There used to be…
Sea Change
Editor’s Letter: August 2018 The Fort Lauderdale neighborhood I grew up in, and where my parents still live, is called Knoll Ridge. It’s not a name anyone ever really used…
The Inevitable
Editor’s Letter: July 2018 I remember not feeling particularly lucky, but knowing that I was. Hurricane Andrew coincided with the start of my high school football career. It made landfall…
A Rolling Scone Gathers No Moss
Editor’s Letter: May 2018 Scones can’t be that hard. I mean, they can’t be that hard to make. Screw them up and they can most certainly be that hard. Hockey-puck…
Following Flagler
Editor’s Letter: April 2018 Henry Flagler thought the land my house sits on would make excellent farmland. Yours too, if you live within whistling distance of the New River. If…
By Design
Editor’s Letter: March 2018 I feel like I can trust you, so I’m going to admit something. I have no idea what shiplap is. Literally none. What is it made…
Springing Back
Editor’s Letter: February 2018 Most Fort Lauderdale people, I reckon, have had this experience at least once. You’re somewhere far from Fort Lauderdale, and you mention to someone – we’ll…
The Floating Economy
Editor’s Letter: November 2017 Let me give you two words and, without thinking about it, note the first images you picture. Ready? Okay, here goes: yacht jobs. You can see…
Playing Favorites
Editor’s Letter: October 2017 If you watched the Dolphins in the ’80s you can skip the next several paragraphs, since you don’t need me to tell you who Jim Jensen…