cocktails, island style, stories & beautiful blue water
THE BALLAD OF SKIP WILEY Songwriters KUNKEL, RUSS / BUFFETT, JIMMY / GUTH, ROGER / MAYER, PETER HAGEN / OLIVER, JAY R. “Welcome to the revolution”, He said With a pirates persona he snatched the gridiron Madonna And the day grovers called for his head This is one of my all time favorite lyric rhymes from a Buffett song. Heck,… Read More
Oh my goodness ~~~ digging around on my book shelves and I found a forgotten treasure! I’ve had this copy of SHADOW DIVERS nearly ten years, and have recommended it to so many people who love diving or a good adventure. It’s the non-fiction account of two divers who found a sunken WWII U-boat off the coast of New Jersey,… Read More
It’s a rainy, overcast Sunday morning ~ perfect for coffee & finishing my current book 🙂 . I read a lot of books, but I don’t post them all as part of the blog. If I did, I would only be writing about books ~ and as much as I LOVE books, I also LOVE lots of other things that… Read More
Three of my very favorite words ~ mystery.thriller.series! Let me happily introduce you to Tom Lowe’s character Sean O’Brien. I’ve read a virtual ton of mystery procedural fiction over the years, and I can sniff out the authentic from the merely trying hard character in the first ten pages. Sean hooked me by Chapter Two 🙂 . O’Brien is a… Read More
In my list of favorite writers, I must confess that F.Scott Fitzgerald was not particularly high on the list. I think I last read him in college and was not particularly impressed. Conversely, I have always really liked this Buffett song based on the Fitzgerald short story. Diamond as Big as the Ritz Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Jay Oliver, Roger… Read More
Woodruff Arts Center Box Office…”What’s the name of your book club, so I can add it to the reservation?” Carolyn… “In all the years we’ve been together as a group, it’s always just been THE book club…I guess that’s our name.” Woodruff Arts Center Box Office…”OK, reserving 10 seats for Thursday night for THE book club. Thank you!” And so… Read More
And so it begins. The first week post the autumn time change. I’m only a few days into this and I want my evenings back! Somehow going straight from afternoon time to just plain dark o’thirty without an evening transition, puts me in a bit of a funk every year at this time. I will adjust and get back on… Read More
“When you’re a spy and you’re burned, you’ve got nowhere to go…”, so it is a good thing Michael Westen has friends like Fiona Glenanne and Sam Axe…though he might not feel that way. Welcome to Miami. Welcome to my favorite television show, Burn Notice. The combination of gorgeous tropical scenery, witty dialogue, more improvised gadgets than McGyver and the… Read More
Dirk Pitt. Kirk Austin. Juan Cabrillo. Adventures, discoveries, boys with toys. They entertain, inform, and I sincerely hope that they are all really out there somewhere. I’ve been reading their Clive Cussler exploits for more than 15 years and I am never disappointed. I love a good series and remember vividly the first encounter. Reading Sahara on vacation in Turks… Read More
