On Friday, I marveled at the green, green campus of the University of Miami on my way to a lunch session of Beyond Bootcamp, an intensive media training camp for journalists at the School of Communication. UM looks slightly different from the environs of the University of Virginia, especially at this time of year, and [...]

Sailing through Coral Gables yesterday morning, I picked up this week’s CSA farm box to find tomatoes, greens, bok choy, avocado, sugarcane, and the first of the eggs: My friends Jenne (here, Skyping with a friend in France) and Jess came over to help with the greens and make Abba gingerbear cookies: Our friend Pilar [...]

My beautiful friend Jenne drove with me to the end of the world today–or, at least, what felt like the end of the world as the road ended and we got out to look around. She smiled as we heard the sounds of things uncivilized approaching… and an ATV trio rumbled past in their mudded [...]

Last night, my friend Jenne invited me to the Dot Fiftyone gallery opening of an exhibit from MoonStar called “Transforming Light” in the design (Wynwood art) district of Miami. There is a severe sense of fabulous in some Miami areas, where women dress entirely in white, there is always a rooftop beckoning with undulating conversation [...]