AS FAR AS THE ANIMAL KINGDOM is concerned, Florida ranks as close to Eden as one can get. Hike through our enchanted forest and you’ll find a haven for bear, bison and fox. Canoe or kayak along riverbanks dotted with exotic waterfowl, take a moonlit summer walk with nesting sea turtles or dive sunlit waters [...]
Archive for March, 2010
My 8-year-old cocker spaniel, Princess, is a very lucky girl, as is her sister, a charming songbird barely six months old named Tweety. Both were rescued while my family still lived in New York. My mother discovered Princess tied to a post — abandoned — when she was a scrawny shy puppy, barely a few [...]
The amazing saga of triumph over personal, artistic and political adversity
Outside the famous Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow a crowd is anxiously queuing up for a historic performance. It is the 80th birthday jubilee of Maya Plisetskaya, one of the most famous prima ballerinas ever to take the stage.
Tonight, November 18, 2005 is the “re-premiere” of [...]
A Mother’s Love
ANNA AND JOHN REDGATE were beginning a new venture in the horse industry wintering in Florida and summering in Connecticut. So, on December 30, 1999, they packed up their family — two and a half year old Whittaker and nine month old Grace — for a season tour of Wellington in Palm [...]
While experts and conservation teams urge working together to use less, Florida’s water leadership — from local government officials to water-management district leaders to the governor’s office — seems focused on sticking more straws in the fragile supply of freshwater
