Editor's Note: Shorts season: the pleasant interlude between snowbirds and hurricanes
I sprayed and soaked and bleached, but nothing would remove the big, green blob from the front of my favorite white, rip-stop cotton Bermuda shorts. Wouldn’t you know it? Right when the temperatures are inching upward and the snowbirds are gone. This is shorts season, darn it, and I hope this isn’t an indicator of the summer to come.
We don’t hit hurricane season until June, but already I’m watching weather patterns and fretting about evacuations. Water spouts in Briny Breezes and…
Added by Mary Kate Leming on May 2, 2013 at 2:34pm — 1 Comment
Editor's Note: A salute to my mom and all moms
May is one of my favorite months. It marks the end of the busy season here. Even though we have to say goodbye to friends for a few months while they travel north, or to the islands, or maybe overseas, there are some perks for those of us who stay put. The highways, restaurants, shops and beaches are a little less crowded and the pace is a little less hectic.
My mom was fan of the less hectic, but so much of her life was just the opposite. She tended to the needs of eight children…
Added by Mary Kate Leming on May 2, 2013 at 2:01pm — No Comments
Secret Gardens: Ahoy! Look out for pirate’s private paradise on garden tour
A full-size pirate ship complete with cannons and a gang plank is shaded by massive oak trees
in the side yard of David Nordhausen’s Boca Raton home.…
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Finding Faith: Cafe Esperanza trainees get ‘helping hand’ toward new career, fresh start
CROS Ministries members Carolina Martinez, 27, (left) of West Palm Beach and Tracy Tenore, 28, (right)
of Boynton Beach paint the house of Delray Beach resident Willie Lee Thomas, 89, with the help…
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Paws Up for Pets: Vet seeks better legal status for police canines
Dr. Ken Simmons visits with Zeek Moore, Hannah Banana Marinus and Lexi Panitz
in the Doggie Day Care at the Barkeritaville Lagoon at Simmons Veterinary Hospital in Lake Worth.…
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Health and Harmony: Healthy sex life life is ... healthy
Anne Rodgers (left) and Dr. Maureen Whelihan collaborated on the new book Kiss and Tell.
Below: the book's cover.
Photo provided by Lee…
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