As I write this, my husband is in our back yard propping up a little hibiscus tree, which yesterday started to fall over. “What’s it like living in Florida?” people ask me. Well, this is what it’s like: The ground is so soft and perpetually hot and wet, that it can’t even support a […]
living in Florida
It’s an El Jungle Out There-O
You wouldn’t believe what we south Floridians have to go through down here. It’s a jungle. Really, it’s a tropical jungle where alligators feel they have the right to waddle down the middle of an avenue if there’s a heavy rainstorm, where lizards crawl out from under your computer keyboard when you’re trying to write […]
Off to See the Lizards
Let me tell you a story about a girl from Ohio who was afraid of bugs. She hated small bugs, large bugs, and was more afraid of encountering a spider than a grizzly bear. She lived all over and eventually settled in Florida and one day a lizard crawled out from under her computer […]
Florida Myths ‘n Stuff
The leather skin is a ruse to take your attention away from the fact that her bikini top is around her waist. I haven’t written much of anything over the past month. Moving out of our Lexington house and into our Jupiter, Florida, house took pretty much every ounce of energy I had. […]