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This article appeared in The St. Petersburg Times in August 1992: Three teenagers stood talking in the soft glow of the lights outside the Kash n’ Karry at Seven Hills Plaza during the early morning hours of Aug. 14. The shopping center parking lot, a popular Spring Hill hangout, is no stranger to teen trouble. Last year,…
My home security system needs a safe space. The other night while watching The Expanse (an excellent show that should be saved from cancellation, FYI), struggling with my usual seasonal allergies, I cut loose with a mighty sneeze that the Fellowship might’ve mistaken for a cave troll. The alarm, which I’d set a few minutes…
The first I heard about Harlan Ellison was from my Dad when he gave me a used copy of Dangerous Visions from Jerry Cooper’s First Amendment bookstore near the drive-in off Highway 50 in Union Park. I was a teenager at the time and a Star Trek fanatic, but didn’t yet realize that Ellison authored…
I didn’t read the fine print. I was so excited that a friend had provided me a ticket for two to an advance screening of Solo: A Star Wars Story on Monday night that I didn’t pay proper attention to the warning that it was a “bag and tag” event. One condition of showing the…
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013: I have some great memories of my teenage years, when I worked in the tunnel stockrooms beneath the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. The job itself was mundane: I stocked shelves with coon-skin caps and Mickey Mouse sweatshirts. On stormy days, we made emergency runs throughout…
This column appeared in The Herald-Sun in 2013: The economy really must be improving, because my weekend walks at The Streets at Southpoint mall have lost their intensity. I can’t speed along at a decent pace, what with having to slow down or stop for other people or, when possible, to swerve around them. Don’t…