Imagine playing college ball in a sane world. Imagine going to normal classes, meeting normal expectations, going out on normal dates, and finding time for practice and games as part of a healthy, normal life. Imagine your friends all over the country doing the same. Now imagine that to celebrate the new year, all the […]

For many years, in the middle of a rich Miami suburb, stood a fifty-foot statue of a parrot. Think of the great assembled bones of Tyrannosaurus Rex that loom over visitors to the Smithsonian, but now imagine something twice as tall, and in the form of an obnoxious talking bird. It is perhaps an ambivalent […]

There are no other Everglades in the world. -Marjory Stoneman Douglas   Miami was built upon a reef.  The reef died and turned to rock, hundreds of miles of rock, cracked and crazed and looking like it’s been through war. Each jag and crevice can shelter plant and animal life, all in turn nourished by […]

Not all of the ‘Glades is swamp.  The vast and wild parts of the state that draw their life from the waters of Okeechobee are more than one wide, slow river of grass; about nine different unique ecosystems compete for water and sun, each kept in balance by subtle differences in altitude, water level, and […]