There are three prominent kinds of capers. The first is the thorny Capparis spinosa that grows in the Mediterranean. The famed taxonomist Carl Linnaeus named it after the Latin word for...
Jeanne Arkin figures she bought a straight-on view of Smathers Beach at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean "that came with a condo." Then she discovered her condominium in La Brisa's east building even...
Ijust finished one of my last assignments before leaving for Key West. It is a magazine article called "Personal Spaces" about working at home, and this is an abbreviated version. I interviewed two...
Last Sunday I received a call from artist William Welch to say he liked last week's column and especially the title of my new book. He said, "You should copyright that." For anyone interested, my...
Like the late great sculptor and painter Mario Sanchez, Charles Pearson and Tim Roeder work and live in their Bahama Village compound. They are the Whitehead Street Pottery guys, who have been in...
The Key West Garden Club recently hosted a photo-lecture by the renowned landscape designer Raymond Jungles at the Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center during an evening meeting in January. Several of...
What I want to know is, how do some fan blades on steroids create power?
There's a reason that wind turbines stand approximately 260 feet off the ground. What does hot air do? Hot air rises. That's...
In 2007, Billy Cartledge and Jim Hall gutted the home they built in 1996. The exterior still looks pretty much like its neighbors in Truman Annex -- mostly single-family, two-story houses hidden...
Modern scientists think the 10 plagues of ancient Egypt occurred because of global warming that caused a drought that triggered a red algae bloom in the Nile that sped the hatching of frogs that,...
Ihave found, over the years, that an exercise class is the perfect place to pick up all kinds of information. It might be a bit of harmless gossip, a good tip on a sale item, information about travel...
