When Sen. Mel Martinez published his autobiography earlier this year, the 240-page book said very little about his life in Washington. ...more

December 4, 2008

Elfreide Kuemmel first began to suspect that something wasn't quite right when she boarded the plane that she thought was going to Tampa. ...more

November 20, 2008

Big band singer Connie Haines, who joined Frank Sinatra in a string of hits with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1940s and continued performing well into her 80s, died Monday in Clearwater, where she had lived the past two decades. ...more

September 26, 2008

Big-band singer Connie Haines, who joined Frank Sinatra in a string of hits with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra in the 1940s and continued performing well into her 80s, died Monday in Clearwater, where she had lived the past two decades. ...more

September 25, 2008

As illuminating juxtapositions go, this one was hard to miss. Inside the Alice Hall Community Center, nerve center for the city of pure water's election day activities, the action was as cool as the refrigerated air. Fewer than 100 yards away, lifelong friends lounged in the steamy shade cast by a blue awning while tots splashed in water park spray, both generations utterly indifferent to the day's electoral possibilities or implications. ...more

August 27, 2008

My son has moved to New York City. And I'm okay with it … sort of. When he first told me he was moving to New York, my reaction was the typical maternal instinct—panic! Because that's what mothers do. It's in our job description. ...more

July 28, 2008

A Keystone mother took her appeal to the Hillsborough County School Board last week, asking members not to split her son from his lifelong friends. ...more

February 13, 2008

A Keystone mother took her appeal to the Hillsborough County School Board last week, asking members not to split her son from his lifelong friends. ...more

February 13, 2008

The modern version of "Go west, young man," may very well be, "Go west, aging boomer." Demographers who track retirement trends report increasing numbers of baby boomers are retiring to Wyoming and Montana. This past year, we read articles titled "Forget Florida or Arizona, More Baby Boomers Are Heading West" and "More Boomers Head to Mountain West." We didn't put much stock in such news. We didn't want to believe the "rumors" of a somewhat surprising trend. That was, before we received a call from lifelong friends. They told us they'd sold their home in Dallas, Texas, and were retiring to Saratoga, Wyo. ...more

January 11, 2008

It's Friday night football without the football - seven hours of halftime performances as high school bands compete in the annual marching band festival. ...more

November 10, 2007