“BIG ROMANTIC GETAWAY”
We aren’t speaking. Our “big romantic getaway” is not. He leaves to kite-board; I sleep late, read the paper and drink coffee alone ...
MATING DANCE
Bert is a bird-watcher who’s come to Key West for Sooty Tern nesting season in the Dry Tortugas. He is with Peggy, his wife, who doesn’t like bird-watching but likes watching Bert bird-watch ...
HEY DOLL
I was born in the wrong era. I was meant to young and single in the late 1940s when people used Key lime ice from Lucignani’s by the Cuban Club as the mixer for daiquiris ...
CHICK IT OUT
It’s a cute cap, with a yellow chick and pink zigzag stitching––like the chicks all over Key West, herded by freaking-out mothers ...
SHOP-O-HOLICS, NOT ANONYMOUS
Being a clothing addict isn’t a flaw, Madeline realized after years of retail therapy, dark nights battling buyer’s remorse, and lengthy discussions with collection agents ...