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Thank You, Alexandra S.

From the bottom of my heart, I want to say "Thank you, Alexandra S. We've never met. I don't email you or have any other contact with you but still you have a place in my heart.

We do have a few things in common. Both of us were flying on Delta Airline yesterday. Both of us missed a connecting flight. I only know that you were flying into the U.S. and your plane was late landing. I was returning from six hectic days on the road. I'm a travel writer and had just attended Travel Media Showcase...

Why Chrysler went bust!

Ever wonder why Chrysler was in so much financial trouble that they had to declare bankruptcy? I just had my Jeep repaired at a dealership in Brandon, Florida near Tampa and understand why people had lost faith in Chrysler products.

This was an emergency or I would not have taken the car to a dealer. My last dealer experience with a Chrysler dealer in Palatka had made me wary. That time I had a steering pump problem. For those of you like me who know very little about mechanics, when power steeri

Latest Travels

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I’m just finishing up on my latest book, Wild About Florida: North Florida. The last bit of traveling I did on this one was very unique.  One episode in particular reminds me of how like us the animals are.  Life and death is part of their cycle also.  One zoo I visited had a brand new addition to its family. Another lost one of its treasured family.

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Harry, the brand new jaguar cub at Jacksonville Zoo

New Years day 2009 was a very special day at the Jacksonville Zoo. Their four and a half year-

A Visiting Author

Today, I’m happy to welcome a visiting author.

Justin Sachs

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Your Mailbox is Full

I’d like to introduce you to Justin Sachs who is the author of a new book, Your Mailbox Is Full and is the founder of the Creating Possibilities Coaching Program in which Justin helps teenagers to increase their grades, eliminate procrastination, and create balance in all the areas of their life.

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Scary Sadie's Curse

Most people think a writer's life is all glamor and fun. Well my friends, I'm here to tell you there are days that are just down and dirty. Oh, in retrospect they're funny but at the time they make you wish you were a Wal-Mart greeter.

A few years back I had one of those days. I was doing a combination book signing/information-gathering trip, zigzagging from St. Augustine to Tampa then back via the East Coast. I had set six book signings promoting my current book, Last Step. Now Last Step has not

Scary Sadie’s Curse

Most people think a writer’s life is all glamor and fun. Well my friends, I’m here to tell you there are days that are just down and dirty. Oh, in retrospect they’re funny but at the time they make you wish you were a Wal-Mart greeter.

A few years back I had one of those days. I was doing a combination book signing/information-gathering trip, zigzagging from St. Augustine to Tampa then back via the East Coast. I had set six book signings promoting my current book, Last Step. Now Last Step has not

End of the Trail

Last day of the fam trip was Sunday. We made one stop en route to the airport. The Brown Vs Board National Historic Site. It’s housed in the old Monroe School building. Contrary to common belief this is the Black school not the white school the children  in the class action suit wanted to attend.

Monroe School

The museum was well laid out and really told the story well. One exhibit where you wlaked the guantlet of a narrow passage between film strips of chanting segragationists, large frantically

Following Freedom's Trail II

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This morning started out great. After a generous continental breakfast at the Holiday Inn in Independence, we headed for Harrisonville. We arrived at an 1835 log cabin/museum maintained by the Harrisonville Historic Society. We enjoyed a short play preformed on that small log cabin porch. It portrayed the Younger family's plight in pre-Civil War Missouri. The families were driven out of their homes by Jayhawkers under the infamous Order Eleven. This was a part of the Civil War drama I wasn't ve

Following Freedom’s Trail II

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This morning started out great. After a generous continental breakfast at the Holiday Inn in Independence, we headed for Harrisonville. We arrived at an 1835 log cabin/museum maintained by the Harrisonville Historic Society. We enjoyed a short play preformed on that small log cabin porch. It portrayed the Younger family’s plight in pre-Civil War Missouri. The families were driven out of their homes by Jayhawkers under the infamous Order Eleven. This was a part of the Civil War drama I wasn’t ve

Following Freedom's Trail

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Today, I'm going to paste my schedule in to show you what we are doing here.

Of the places we visited yesterday, the Arabia Museum impressed me the most. All of them were interesting and a vital part of history but the hands on do it ourselves attitude of, Dave, our guide and one of the owner of the museum, won top exhibit for me. He and his family actually excavated the steam ship Arabia, set up the museum and are still working the exhibits consisting of one of the largest catches of 19th centu