by Linda Grist Cunningham | Sep 23, 2023
It has become embarrassingly obvious I can no longer roll my eyes when I stumble into a pile of stuff Ranger Ed says he might need someday. What I call Key West clutter when it’s HIS stuff morphs into priceless stuffed pillows and ancient quilts with threadbare... 
by Linda Grist Cunningham | Sep 16, 2023
Grumble Season is fewer than 10 days away. That gives me a 10-day window to wrap up the 2023 Key West summer, followed by three months of Grumble Season, in which I am inclined toward cross words while I wait for December, which is a great month to live in Key West.... 
by Linda Grist Cunningham | Sep 6, 2023
The penultimate track on side one of Jimmy Buffett’s 1981 album, Coconut Telegraph, is “Growing Older But Not Up,” a sing-a-long-able earwig that 30-something baby boomers would carry with them for at least the next four decades. I’m growing... 
by Linda Grist Cunningham | Sep 2, 2023
These days it’s darn near impossible to find something Floridians agree on. We shed our collaborative shades of purple back around the time of hanging chads and we’ve filled closets with red or blue since. Note the “or” because we don’t... 
by Linda Grist Cunningham | Aug 26, 2023
There really is such a thing as the Key West state of mind. Whether you were born here, or first met Key West in 1970 or just a few weeks ago, those who love the island will never stray far. The Key West mystique is captured in every Jimmy Buffett song, in every step...