by Ann Lee Miller | Apr 15, 2016 | Blog, Coconut Grove FL, Just The Facts Fridays
A rubber band nicked my arm between my elbow and my St. Hugh’s uniform sleeve and fell to the floor beside my desk. I turned around and shot a glare at Harry Ferguson, but he and the rest of the class stared, slack-jawed over my shoulder. I twisted forward in time to... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Dec 26, 2015 | Blog, Coconut Grove FL, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
Like every morning, I pedaled hell-bent down Dinner Key Marina’s Pier 1, nearly rattling the teeth out of my head. Dad’s never-ending boat chores and a night spent cohabiting the aft cabin with a spider the size of my hand sloughed off me. I could almost see Dad’s... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Jul 18, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
Sign up to get my blogs in your e-mail at right! Type your e-mail address in the box, then click on “Subscribe.” Station wagons puttered past me, hauling my classmates from St. Hugh’s. I scuffed my saddle shoes along the sandy berm of Charles Street, the... by Ann Lee Miller | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Miami FL- Living Aboard a Sailboat
A rubber band nicked my arm between my elbow and my St. Hugh’s uniform sleeve and fell to the floor beside my desk. I turned around and shot a glare at Harry Ferguson, but he and the rest of the class stared, slack-jawed over my shoulder. I twisted forward in time to... 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...
