When I first moved to South Florida, I lived in complete and abject fear that I was destined to share my home with the dreaded Palmetto bug–aka the Florida version of a giant, disgusting cockroach. “Everyone has them, battles them,” I was told over and over again by Fort Lauderdale friends. Not this gal. I […]
“You must snorkel and fish and be out on the water all the time!” says everyone and anyone who has vacationed here for those purposes. At the year-and-a-half mark of my living in the Keys, the following pathetic statistics bear witness to my landlocked life here: I have been fishing once, never snorkeled, and can […]