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Tag: Florida Keys
Bury Me Floating
On a night when what’s going on in the world seems like an episode of 24, I am sitting at the small round table in our second floor room at the 1950’s era motel in the Florida Keys where we’ve stayed more than twenty… Continue Reading “Bury Me Floating”
The $5 Canoe
Kayak on the Atlantic Ocean on the beautiful Florida Keys with the sea breeze at our backs or canoe in a mangrove swamp? The first involved a required kayaking lesson and $60 and the second involved grabbing a paddle and an orange life preserver… Continue Reading “The $5 Canoe”
Beached
Oh good, I thought. I’m glad there is something on the playground that’s a little dangerous, a whirligig with netting. It looks new. I could see kids grabbing on all the way to the top and the mightier, muscular ones running and pushing to… Continue Reading “Beached”
Bury Me Floating
On a night when what’s going on in the world seems like an episode of 24, I am sitting at the small round table in our second floor room at the 1950’s era motel in the Florida Keys where we’ve stayed more than twenty… Continue Reading “Bury Me Floating”
Surviving the Polar Vortex
The lifeline is speeding along white pavement, lifting onto the stilted bridge, shades of blue water and islands thick with mangroves, hand surfing the wind outside the rolled down window, hair blowing wild. _________ Seven Mile Bridge, Florida Keys
The $5 Canoe
Kayak on the Atlantic Ocean on the beautiful Florida Keys with the sea breeze at our backs or canoe in a mangrove swamp? The first involved a required kayaking lesson and $60 and the second involved grabbing a paddle and an orange life preserver… Continue Reading “The $5 Canoe”
Turning 65
The saltwater was the perfect treatment for the blisters I got from wearing the wrong shoes for a walk on the Old Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys that I had been planning for weeks to mark my 65th birthday. It is so… Continue Reading “Turning 65”
Rainbow Bend
After I had a baby – as in gave birth to a baby – a friend remarked that I had the worst adjustment to motherhood of anyone she’d ever met. She was right. But I was undeterred, going on to adopt three more children. With… Continue Reading “Rainbow Bend”
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Listen to Jan read her essay “Billy” presented on WUWM’s Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “At the Breakfast Bar” on WUWM Lake Effect
Jan’s essay “The Parish Hall,” on WUWM Lake Effect
“Fury Cannot Touch Me,” Modern Love, NYT, 9/29/11
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