Monthly Archives: July 2013

Innocence or Dead In Florida

Last night in Florida a six-person jury found George Zimmerman innocent of a murder charge, stemming from the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin of February 26, 2012. The 17 year-old black boy in a hoodie was walking back to the house of his father’s fiancee in a gated community after purchasing Skittles and an Ice […]

Behind The Beverly Hills Hotel 1977

Life was different in 1977. We had fun. And we were fun. Behind The Beverly Hills Hotel: Photograph by Brad Elterman see https://missrosen.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/brad-elterman-like-it-was-yesterday/

Peace From Gwenest of Gwens

Billy and Sara O’s daughter is back from college. She has the right attitude. Peace on Earth.

Going West

This week my young nephew left Boston to drive to California. A good friend was accompanying Franka on his cross-country trip. I called to offer advice on a route. “We’re driving to Pittsburgh to see my grandmother.” Zsa Zsa was in a nursing home there. Seeing his face would make her happy. “Are you passing […]

CAVE ANATIS by Peter Nolan Smith

I spent the summer of 2008 on Palm Beach care-taking a haunted mansion and a crackhead Airedale for Johnny Zombie. The months of June, July, and August were very off-season, as the ultra-rich fled the fabled island for less muggy climes in France, Italy, and Maine. The house off Ocean Avenue was a big change […]