We all love a good theme park, and Orlando’s got plenty of those. But the City Beautiful has a lot more to offer than just roller coasters and animatronics. Orlando is home to more than two million residents who love the city beyond the parks. If you’re visiting the city, here are five things I […]
Growing up in Florida, winter was nothing special. It was that season when the weather wasn’t blindingly hot–but was never really that cold, either. I can count on one hand the Christmases I remember spending in anything heavier than a long-sleeve shirt. (Most of the time, I was out playing in shorts and a t-shirt […]
Today, I’m remembering: Being newlyweds in Key West in the summer, the heat powerful and perfect, afternoon naps in a papaya-colored room. I remember eating Mexican food outside about an hour before sunset, music playing in a language I don’t understand, the sun winking just over a brown fence, behind a large ficus tree. Rain […]
While we’re on the topic of growing up in Titusville, some visuals:
Growing up in Titusville, Florida, you get used to the launches, you become accustomed to the strange fact that one of our nation’s greatest technical achievements is on full display mere miles from your house, that every now and then a 300,000-pound rocket is shot from the earth into space, or that every now and […]
Lately, instead of renting movies we’ve been watching ones we own and haven’t seen in a while (imagine that). Last night, we cracked out Apollo 13, and I must say, even though I’ve seen it probably about a dozen times—my parents bought it on VHS, and I was an only child, so I tended to […]
