Helping to Keep Wildlife Safe
I don’t usually buy canned sodas or its like but recently due to a medical procedure I needed to not eat for a day I need to hydrate very heavily. When I was throwing away the plastic that ties the six cans together I remembered something from years ago. Always use a knife or a […]
Where have all the children gone?
Approximately 7 million dependents—mostly children—vanished from U.S. income tax returns filed for the 1987 tax year. This massive disappearance occurred because the IRS began requiring taxpayers to list Social Security numbers for any dependents over age 5, making it impossible to continue claiming “phantom” dependents. The Cause: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 introduced the requirement for Social Security […]
The Anhinga – the Clown of the Everglades
When I was a child living in West Miami, I rode my black 3-speed Phillips English Racer out along the Tamiami Trail and went fishing every weekend. That was when I first saw an Anhinga. After they swim underwater, looking sinuous like a snake (which is why they’re nicknamed the snake bird) they get out […]
The Path Between The Seas
Another great history by David McCullough about the creation of the Panama Canal. There’s only one of his books that I haven’t liked and out of courtesy to him I will not name it. Without getting into a whole lot of history about the Panama Canal at one point the US was arguing over whether […]
The Avalanche
I’m sitting in the student union at the University of Miami with some friends. They’retalking about messy dorm rooms. One of the guys nominates me as having the […]
What “FSU” means in Hebrew
This is a partial repeat of a previous post adding a humorous additional memory to it. While sitting in the student union that day (See the story “The Avalanche” in the post “What Me, Focus?”) there […]
Travels With Phil 14 – Florida Southern College and Frank Lloyd Wright
I suggest looking up on the internet how the president of the college contacted Wright in the 1930’s to begin the collaboration. Florida Southern is the largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the world. The Annie Pfeiffer Chapel was the first, of many, Frank Lloyd Wright buildings at Florida Southern College. It was […]
How I Lost My Hair and Beard 50 Years Ago
For a number of reasons, which I might write about later, I did not finish my doctorate in anthropology. While I was in Boston in graduate school I did construction on the side. When we moved back to Miami to get married I continued doing that. It was primarily painting. I got a contract to […]
Travels with Phil 13 – Pasaquan
Eddie Owens Martin, St. EOM, The Wizard of Pasequan, created one of the most incredible primitive art installations in the United States. I am not even going to try to describe it because it would take a book, so look at the two pictures on this page and click on the link because whatever it […]
Nan Lee Haston
You’ve read some of Nan Lee’s poems in these posts. In the section called Phil‘s Press I believe I have an article from the student newspaper at Miami Dade College with her picture. She was frankly one of the most beautiful women I think I have ever met. I don’t just mean her looks; her […]