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COMING IN MAY from Touchstone Books: The story of Jimmy Buffett and his little island of Margaritaville

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Hayes Carll, Tom Corcoran, Peter Ames Carlin and Patterson Hood walk into a blurb

By ryanwwhite on February 8, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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. […]

They say it’s National Escape Day

By ryanwwhite on January 30, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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. […]

One from the road: Mobile, Ala.

By ryanwwhite on January 26, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

One from the road: Pensacola

By ryanwwhite on January 18, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

40 Years ago, just before ‘Margaritaville’ came to life … it was COLD

By ryanwwhite on January 16, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

  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 […]

It’s almost a book

By ryanwwhite on January 4, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

Look in a Fodor’s Guide

By ryanwwhite on November 16, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

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 and the blessings of compromise on a Tuesday night

By ryanwwhite on March 23, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

Kids are smart

By ryanwwhite on February 9, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

Motorhead that one time

By ryanwwhite on December 29, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

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