by Ann Lee Miller | Feb 28, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
Hurricane Laurie gusted across the Gulf of Mexico, 105 mile-an-hour winds gunned for the Glades and south Florida. It was October 27, 1969, and my family barreled across Biscayne Bay under full sail, heading for a Hurricane Hole to wait out the storm. I planted my... by Ann Lee Miller | Feb 20, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
I was an eleven-year-old living on a sailboat in 1969, a year of precarious calm sandwiched between Miami, Florida, race riots in 1968 and 1970. Simon and Garfunkel’s Mrs. Robinson blasted from everybody’s radio but ours because Dad listened to PBS’s moldy... by Ann Lee Miller | Feb 14, 2014 | Ashland OH, Blog, Just The Facts Fridays
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today’s post is a How-I-Met-Your-Father—minus a litany of ex-boyfriends that would jettison my kids into therapy. At twenty-one I was an Ashland (OH) University creative writing major chasing a dream—hermit writer on the North Carolina... by Ann Lee Miller | Feb 7, 2014 | Blog, Coconut Grove FL, Just The Facts Fridays
Join me as I peel back the years until I’m a thirteen-year-old roller rink rat in Miami, Florida, careening around the oval with all the coolness a Catholic school seventh grader could scrape up. I was fast and zit-free, and it was going to be a good day. I...