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So many gifts to arrange, so little time. Let me know if you want to go in on any of these gems! For Ron DeSantis, a souvenir map of...
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laurieyoung9
- Dec 4, 2023
- 3 min
Countdown to Christmas
It’s almost Christmas! Sarasota is in full post-Covid swing this season. My street seems to have kicked off the season by shifting the...
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laurieyoung9
- Nov 29, 2023
- 3 min
Back again!
I hope you all enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday and are all geared up for Christmas and Hanukah. By “geared up” I mean you’re practicing...
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laurieyoung9
- Oct 23, 2023
- 3 min
All the News that's...
Before the news of the week begins to mire us in a situation akin to Boston’s Great Molassess Flood of 1919 I thought I’d offer up some...
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laurieyoung9
- Oct 5, 2023
- 3 min
Visions of Sugarplums
I am losing faith in the world these days. I’ve just found out that I didn’t win Powerball last night. Of course, neither did anyone...
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laurieyoung9
- Oct 2, 2023
- 4 min
On the Road Again...
Robin and I have just returned to Sarasota after a very temperate summer on Cape Cod. We missed the dregs of Hurricane Idalia that swept...
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laurieyoung9
- Jul 31, 2023
- 3 min
Ka-Pow!!
We’re approaching the dog days of summer and I’m fighting the ennui that develops after way too many rounds of golf by rooting for a new...
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laurieyoung9
- Jul 26, 2023
- 3 min
It's a Coin Toss!
Tomorrow is a golf day. I’ll be playing 18 holes. I can’t wait to see which Laurie shows up. Yesterday, the good Laurie played golf. ...
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laurieyoung9
- Jul 3, 2023
- 2 min
Celebration!
Welcome to July 4, a day that all business owners quietly reflected on last December while sketching out their 2023 work schedules...
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laurieyoung9
- Jun 18, 2023
- 4 min
A Trip Back in Time
Yesterday afternoon, the weather forecast here on Cape Cod called for rain on every day of the next week. This got my sad face going...
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laurieyoung9
- Apr 17, 2023
- 3 min
Book it!
Ever since permitless carry passed the mush-for-brains Florida Legislature I’ve been wary of answering the doorbell. Or having the...
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laurieyoung9
- Mar 27, 2023
- 4 min
So Many Books, So Little Time
It’s book time here at the blog. I read so you can get the good stuff and skip the rest. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus; fiction,...
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laurieyoung9
- Mar 19, 2023
- 2 min
It's Stinky-Winky time in Florida
Florida is going to be smelly this year. You’ve probably heard about the great Sargassum belt heading towards Florida. Five thousand...
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laurieyoung9
- Feb 10, 2023
- 9 min
Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, no...
I’m strapped into the bulbous head of a giant grasshopper, listing at a forty-five degree angle to the port side while racing up a canyon...
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laurieyoung9
- Jan 25, 2023
- 3 min
Another Day in Paradise
The doorbell rang. I know, I should get one of those Ring doorbells so I don’t have to answer it if I don’t like the looks of whoever is...
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laurieyoung9
- Jan 6, 2023
- 3 min
The beat goes on (and on)
Dateline: June 1, 2023 CNN is on the television, waiting for the four hundred and ninety-ninth vote for House Speaker. The tension is...
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laurieyoung9
- Dec 29, 2022
- 2 min
Another one bites the dust
The doorbell rang. I’d just returned from Boston and almost didn’t have the energy to answer it but I dragged myself up off the couch in...
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laurieyoung9
- Dec 16, 2022
- 3 min
Shop til you drop
I’m in Boston for my favorite: annual medical appointments and some last-minute Christmas shopping. The medical appointments went very...
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laurieyoung9
- Dec 1, 2022
- 4 min
Out of Africa (and back in Florida)
Note: Two videos follow at the end of the text. The Africa of our safari is 7,000 miles and a hundred years away from Sarasota. You can...
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laurieyoung9
- Nov 20, 2022
- 3 min
2022: A Year of Reckoning
As the end of November approaches and we can again look forward sitting in the same room for Thanksgiving dinner, I’ve noticed a very...
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