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The Drew Epiphany: Year in Review

Oh, beloveds.  Today is the first time I went out in the glades last year with Cristina, the day I saw the explosion of white ibis from the mangroves sailing up into the blue Everglades sky from my first airboat … Continue reading

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Meditation on Death and Dying, Best to Approach the Shadow Well-Dressed Before Entering

Right before I broke up with Michael the first time, in Wilmington, when I was still who I was then and months before the car wreck that would eject me from that reality and into this wonderland of South Florida, … Continue reading

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Fear

I can tell you the exact moment I knew I wanted to be a writer.  I was in 11th grade, in Mrs. Helen Nicholson’s American Literature class, and she was demonstrating different techniques of writing by contrasting Ernest Hemingway paragraphs … Continue reading

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Osceola and the End of the Story

One of my favorite stories so far that I’ve learned while reading Michael Grundwald’s exceptional compendium of South Florida, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise–required reading for my new job–is about the Creek-born but Seminole-bred Osceola. … Continue reading

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