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Southbound

March 24, 2019 – 1:41 am

Vladmar is heading to Florida. At 60 the Pittsburgh native has never been to the Sunshine State. My first visit was in Spring 1971. Four friends drove a Chevy Nova from Boston to Fort Lauderdale. I-95 was half-finished and US1 ran as a two-laner through small southern towns. We only stopped for gas and food, […]

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A Winter Poem

January 7, 2018 – 2:06 pm

My friend Alison in Palm Beach found this poem. Her trees are dying from the cold. ” WINTER ” by Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre Shit It’s Cold The End This was one of coldest weeks in America. Even Florida had snow. It wasn’t always that way and maybe it won’t be again, but I remember driving […]

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SOUTHBOUND by Peter Nolan Smith

June 9, 2013 – 3:43 pm

Last week Vladmar announced that he was heading to Florida. The Pittsburgh native never been there before. “I can’t believe that I’m 50 years old and have never to the Holy Land.” The Sunshine State was special, but even more so back in the last century. “My first trip to FLA was in Spring 1971. […]

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