Weakened by the bug that has been rolling through the Rays' clubhouse, Scott Kazmir wasn't terribly effective in his start this afternoon against the Cardinals. ...more

March 19, 2009

PORT CHARLOTTE Maybe the Rays won't have to worry about filling in for B.J. Upton when the season opens April 6 in Boston. ...more

March 18, 2009

No two people are afraid of exactly the same thing. Take me and my daughter. ...more

February 12, 2009

LAND O' LAKES - Elementary school students accustomed to pizza in the cafeteria every Friday need to adjust their culinary expectations. ...more

February 6, 2009

An assortment of cutting edge kitchen- and food-related items. ...more

January 22, 2009

I've had an appetite for nostalgia this week. I've been watching back-to-back episodes of the first season of "Mad Men." For anyone not familiar with the AMC series, it's a throwback to the early 1960s that delves into the lives of sharply suited and carefully coiffed employees of a New York City ad agency. ...more

December 17, 2008

I've had an appetite for nostalgia this week. I've been watching back-to-back episodes of the first season of "Mad Men." For anyone not familiar with the AMC series, it's a throwback to the early 1960s, which delves into the lives of sharply suited and carefully coiffed employees of a New York City ad agency. ...more

December 17, 2008

LAND O' LAKES - The boxes, filled with Cheerios, Jell-O, Ramen noodles, spaghetti and all manner of canned goods, were carried from the guidance counselor's area at Pine View Middle School out to two large pickups in the parking lot. ...more

November 8, 2008

The days separating us from this cycle's The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetimes have dwindled to a precious handful. Accordingly, opinions have begun to congeal as voters have grown serious. ...more

October 10, 2008

Some Pasco residents served by Aqua Utilities used interesting phrases to describe their water. ...more

September 27, 2008