by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Stuart FL
I eyed delicious, and definitely off the market, Danny Pignato across the school bus bench. The bedlam around me faded like I’d landed in a movie. The hour between Stuart Middle School and Jupiter was a long time to avoid all that cuteness. Too long, it turned out.... by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 19, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Stuart FL
In November Mom married my stepdad. In December we moved a hundred miles up the east coast from Miami. In January I transferred into Stuart Middle School in the middle of eighth grade. I thought I might be due a little peace—not the fight that broke out my first day... by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 12, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Stuart FL
The sun sank into Southeast Florida in the balmy butt-crack of winter. I’d just turned fourteen and this was my eighth move—a VW van, a sailboat, and six houses. I glanced out the picture window of our cement block cracker box at R.J. and the neighbor kids riding... by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 5, 2014 | Blog, Coconut Grove FL, Just The Facts Fridays
The plane set down on the Miami International Airport tarmac. Brakes grabbed below my feet, tamping down our speed. White bulbs winked along the asphalt as the plane hurled forward. But there were no taxiway lights for the sharp turn my life was about to take....