— Last night, I was driving on University Avenue about 6:30 p.m. to watch the UF basketball game against Southern Texas. As I was passing the campus on my left, a Jimmy John’s delivery bicyclist cut right in front of my [...]
December 13, 2014
Business, Reflections
Since I first received a speeding ticket in Waldo, Florida, and wrote about the shady practices of its police force last year, a lot has happened. Five officers told the Waldo City Council in August that police Chief Mike Szabo [...]
October 17, 2014
Reflections
Last Veterans Day, in 2013, I attended Alachua County’s ceremony for our Armed Forces. The community has the privilege of being home to one of the 79 living recipients of the Medal of Honor, Marine Cpl. Duane Dewey, of Hawthorne, Fla. [...]
August 17, 2014
History, Reflections
— Just when you think you understand Twitter… I recently made a post that mysteriously set what I figure is a personal record for retweets and favorites (since, in this 21st century world, such things are important): “I don’t want to [...]
Traffic moves slowly on Interstate 20 after my truck rolled twice across all four lanes before resting in the median. — It’s been more than three years since I took a tumble across all four lanes of Interstate 20 during rush-hour traffic in [...]
August 12, 2014
Reflections