Monthly Archives: February 2011

Gumbo? Again?

2/24/2011 – 12:23 pm

WINTER PARK, FL – Last week’s helping of gumbo was favorably received and since I’m supposed to be on vacation this week and because there’s still dozens of issues popping up – more gumbo. The venom I received from the bees last week was not, in the longer view, as effective as I’d hoped it […]

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Some Call it Gumbo

2/17/2011 – 5:50 pm

I’m busy this week and have many things on my mind and small bits of unfinished business, so while I usually restrict my commentaries to one topic, I’m going to borrow my friend Renee’s term and give you some Thursday gumbo – a little of everything. The good thing about beekeeping is you have ready […]

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Ten Thousand and One Arabian Nights

2/10/2011 – 2:55 pm

I’ve been procrastinating all day. This is partially because, well, it’s what I do. This week’s excuse is that I’ve been waiting to see what happens in Egypt. As I wrote last week, the Obama administration can’t seem to get its head out of the desert sand and make a decision about Egypt. Or make […]

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What Were We Thinking?

2/3/2011 – 1:32 pm

I was walking across campus that October afternoon when I heard the news. I rushed to the Journalism Department where the Associated Press Teletype was clattering in its insulated booth. Other J-students and professors were gathered around, tearing off the reports as they came in and silently passing them around. Anwar Sadat was dead, assassinated […]

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