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• Get Out Your Frying Pan! Lionfish Is What’s For Dinner

  This beautiful fish is wreaking havoc in its non-native environment.  Photo via Wikipedia.
  Last month, I attended the First Annual Lionfish Food and Wine Night at Key Largo’s Fish House Encore, hosted by REEF, a grassroots organization devoted to marine conservation. The house was packed at this [...]
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• Silicone Bitch: Gordon Ramsey of Kitchen Nightmares and ABC Bake Bistro Are All Reality TV Whores

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  Silicone Bitch has been quiet for a while, but she's coming back! We've got some really juicy stories on our editorial calendar.
  
  Of recent interest is a social media publicity scandal involving an Arizona restaurant -- Amy’s Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro -- whose Facebook page [...]
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• R & R - Romp and Relaxation in Key West for the Romantically Challenged

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  The view from one of the rooftop terraces at The Reach. Simply divine.
  
  “Been there, done that, but in a good way.” That’s what I often say of many destinations I keep going back to, picking only favorite restaurants, [...]
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• About Joseph, Jesus and Then A Guy Whose Name I Can’t Even Pronounce Because It Has a Silent T

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  I was with someone for eight months named Joseph. I loved him dearly. It ended.  Well, he ended it. But that’s not what this story is about.
  
  This is about lifting yourself up from the ground no sooner than you fall.  I used to ice skate, remember? [...]
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• Romancing the Keys: Escape From Miami at Hilton Key Largo Resort

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  No, it's not the Caribbean. But pretty damn close. Thank heaven for that.
  In my never-ending search for Miami getaways -- folks, that means I want to get away from Miami, not tourists coming to Miami -- I discovered the Hilton [...]
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• A Tango For All Lovers

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  Dancing alone.
  
  I remember being at a milonga waiting for someone to ask me to dance the next tango. Couples swirled about me. And until I got to dance, I felt the absence of a partner deeply, intensely, no matter how discreetly poised I might sit at [...]
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• A Heart Never Sleeps

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  "Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again."
  
  -- Almasy to Katharine Clifton from the English Patient screenplay, by Anthony Minghella.  Drawing by yours truly.You won't see me on the side' [...]
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• Love Is Not Engagements, Weddings, Marriages or Babies

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  This is an interesting time for me.  I’m in my 40s, right smack in the middle of life. I’m blessed with multi-generational family and friends – some are younger, some are older. And what I see is a vast kaleidoscope of life’s richness, perched up here on [...]
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• You Always Go Back Home

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  I'm moving back to my old neighborhood so I can be closer to my parents.
  
  I've been a gypsy all my life, moving about in Miami-Dade countless times. Oh yeah, and then there was that surreal yet amazing three-year stint in Venezuela when I was [...]
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• HeartCamp 2013

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  One of my drawings, inspired by this event.
  
  Sex and the Beach will be on a bit of a hiatus until February. Yours truly is organizing the second annual HeartCamp, which is keeping me quite busy, in between work, caregiving for my [...]
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