COMING IN MAY from Touchstone Books: The story of Jimmy Buffett and his little island of Margaritaville
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This? It’s one big thank you note. But it’s also about this: Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, the story of how Jimmy Buffett made Margaritaville, and how Margaritaville made Jimmy Buffett. […]
Margaritaville’s various social media feeds have alerted me to the fact that today is National Escape Day. If ever a nation needed an escape day, today is probably the day. Until tomorrow. […]
Have you been reading the news? I’ve been reading the news. Anyway, here’s a photo of folly chasing death in an old cemetery in Mobile, Ala. where a man whose story blends […]
Winter, which barely ever exists in Portland, has sucked in Portland. I was warmer when I took this in 2015, on the beach behind the Margaritaville Hotel in Pensacola, Fla. “This must […]
Forty years ago, as Washington D.C. prepared to welcome President Jimmy Carter, jackhammers were employed to chip ice from the parade route. Republican senator Ted Stevens invited the president-elect to move the […]
Two photos taken 364 days apart. On the left, the first blank page of a book as I sat down to begin writing exactly one year ago, on Jan. 4, 2016. On […]
Once, at Key West’s sunset celebration in Mallory Square, I watched a large man somersault through a small hoop. Writing a book is a little like that. You set out to accumulate as […]
Bruce Springsteen was talking about compromise last night. Adult compromise, as viewed by the kids startled to first discover Mom and Dad had hopes and dreams. The world takes some of those […]
A few days after Christmas, my dad and I were browsing the Powell’s on Hawthorne when I noticed a copy of the first Harry Potter book illustrated. “Stell might be old enough to […]
I saw Motorhead once, a few years ago at the Roseland. I went because it was Motorhead and I’d never seen Motorhead and I wanted to be able to say I’d seen […]
