Looking for something a bit out of the ordinary to plant this fall? I have a few suggestions you might want to check out. ...more

September 21, 2008

Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. Most of the fields in eastern Hillsborough County have been fallow since late spring, when the sheets of black plastic were pulled up and burned, the neat rows flattened, the commercial berry gardens gone to weed. ...more

September 3, 2008

Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. Most of the fields in eastern Hillsborough County have been fallow since late spring, when the sheets of black plastic were pulled up and burned, the neat rows flattened, the commercial berry gardens gone to weed. ...more

September 3, 2008

Summer is a time of rest in the world's winter strawberry capital. ...more

August 27, 2008

Have you shopped for furniture lately? Welcome to a world where virtually everything is brown, or some shade of brown. The stores try to fool us by calling the shade chocolate, or taffy, or cappuccino (as if it were food, not furniture), but no one is fooled. It's brown, and brown, and more brown. ...more

July 20, 2008

President Bush, dispensing hugs freely as he comforted tornado survivors Friday, acknowledged the "incredible sadness and worry" he saw in their eyes and said the nation stands ready to help. ...more

February 9, 2008

Alternating between bittersweet laments over the loss of husbands, youth and motherhood and rousing bawdy tunes that proclaim there's still sex, life and adventure after age 50, "Hats! The Musical" makes for a good ladies' night out. ...more

January 30, 2008