Thanksgiving 2016…well, “as near as makes no never mind,” to use an old colloquial expression that, while it isn’t grammatically correct, is very expressive. Thanksgiving 2016. It’s been a turbulent year, but if I don’t get into politics here—and I won’t, I promise—that excludes most of the turbulence and most of what everyone is still...
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Making The Most Of My 12-Hour Workday
There is a rooster inside my head that goes off like the most reliable alarm clock at 5 every morning if I’m not already awake—which most often I am. At times in my past I tried staying up later in hopes that would cause me to sleep later. It didn’t. It only left me resembling...
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Book honors Frances Langford, actress from Lakeland
LAKELAND — Ferguson Addison first became aware of Frances Langford through a family connection. Addison, who grew up in Southwest Florida, had a cousin who played piano in the 1920s at WDAE, a radio station in Tampa. Langford, a Lakeland resident, appeared on a weekly show on WDAE, singing in front of a band.
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Learning And Being Inspired
The attendance was very nearly SRO at last Saturday’s third big event of the organization 4 Authors by Authors (read the “4” as “For”). In a jam-packed large room at Keiser University in West Palm Beach, writers and would-be writers sat and absorbed wisdom and inspiration from five speakers: author Lisa McCourt (speaking on behalf...
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NaNoWriMo
It comes just once a year—and I’m not talking about Christmas, or the just-passed Halloween. The subject today is NaNoWriMo, and as it just started yesterday, November 1st, you’re really not too late to jump in and catch up.