Memoir WritingAugust 21, 2026
Pinellas County has more writing groups than most people realize, mostly meeting in library rooms. The useful skill is telling a group that will make you better from one that will correct your commas for two years.
HistoryAugust 21, 2026
There is a Tocobaga temple mound in a county park in Safety Harbor, and the park is named for the Frenchman who showed up in 1842. Which name ends up on the sign is the useful thing to think about.
Book MarketingAugust 21, 2026
Five mineral springs in Safety Harbor have been sold as a cure for five hundred years, starting when Hernando de Soto decided he had found the Fountain of Youth. There is a lesson in it for anyone writing a book.
Authority Through AuthorshipAugust 21, 2026
For fifty years in Ybor City, cigar workers paid a man out of their own wages to sit on a platform and read novels aloud while they worked. They elected him, voted on the books, and struck when the owners…
Authority Through AuthorshipAugust 21, 2026
The Poynter Institute owns the Tampa Bay Times, because Nelson Poynter willed it to them so no chain could buy the paper. It is also where much of the modern craft of nonfiction writing was taught and written down.
Authority Through AuthorshipAugust 21, 2026
Jack Kerouac died in St. Petersburg in 1969 at forty-seven, in a concrete block ranch house in Disston Heights, leaving an estate valued at ninety-one dollars. On the Road has never stopped selling.
HistoryAugust 21, 2026
The East Lake Community Library in Palm Harbor is where the East Lake Writers' Workshop met, in a side room off the main floor, and where I sat every other week for years while Deanna Bennett ran the table.
Memoir WritingAugust 21, 2026
The Clearwater Main Library is a landmark building with maker studios, a digitization station, and a harbor view. It is also closed on weekends, and part of it may become something else.
HistoryAugust 21, 2026
The Safety Harbor Public Library began in 1938 with a hundred books and $2.35 raised at a tea party. It is now open seven days a week and is the best free workspace in town for anyone writing a book.
Critical ThinkingAugust 19, 2026
A psychiatrist at the University of Virginia spent four decades collecting cases of small children who described lives they had not lived, including 210 whose birthmarks matched wounds on the person they claimed to have been.
HistoryAugust 16, 2026
About four in ten American prisoners of the Japanese died in captivity. For Americans held by Germany the figure was around one percent. That gap is the shape of the Pacific war, and my grandfather spent three and a half…
fictionAugust 13, 2026
The settled answer was a head-on collision in four billion years. In June 2025 a hundred thousand simulations turned that into a coin flip. Almost nothing will physically collide when it happens, because stars are too far apart. What changes…
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