I apologize for the following information: It was 87 here yesterday, yes that is degrees ABOVE 0—today it’s gonna be high 70’s and tomorrow dropping to a low in the 50’s and a high mid- to -low 70’s.

I just finished Nora Roberts’ WINDFALL: two shamelessly romantic pieces that are a great escape for those of us who spend too much time working and not enough socializing.

I have one signed first edition that’s gonna be listed: THE MAMMOTH HUNTERS BY Jean M. Auel. It’s part of the Clan of the Cave Bear novels.

My second autographed book is Postcards from Paradise: Romancing Key West by June Keith.

Key West is one of my favorite places to be. It’s about 8 hours by car or an hour by plane from most of Florida and is like leaving the states without having to have a pass port. Key West’s nickname (one of them at least) is Key Weird and I can’t deny the place is a little off the normal straight and narrow (maybe more than a little). It has beautiful old homes, beaches, 3 old forts (one the Key West Museum with a very scary doll; one almost gone but now a Garden Club and the final one a state park)and enough t-shirts to cloth all the tourists who come here for years and years. There’s Duval Street which stretches from Atlantic Ocean to Gulf of Mexico from Gay to Straight and everything in between. There are fine restaurants set on decks overlooking the water (Louie’s Backyard) and bars on top of hotels (La Concha/Crowne Plaza) where you can see just about the whole 2×4 mile island. There’s the writers: Hemingway (who’s house you can visit) and Tennessee Williams whose plays are presented in the multiple small local theaters to name a very few. Things are special there and they’re always ready to celebrate–in fact every night they do just that with a sunset revel that includes tight rope walkers and Scottish bagpipes. And the activities here include scuba diving and the Duval Street Crawl–both involving liquid, just not the same kind. The food is wonderful and varied, the drink ever flowing and the banana pancakes (at Blue Heaven) are divine. A great place to go for an adventure. I by the way stay at Courtney’s Place (see picture)–a little compound close to Duval.

Dance, live, love your way through life’s adventure.