Unpacking

Gaslighting Another Black Community For Fun & Profit

Scratch beneath any story in Coconut Grove and you’ll discover the issue of race lurking. We’ll get to that eventually, but this true fable — with a twist on the race issue — starts with the approval of a Wawa gas station in the City of Coral Gables. So what? Cities approve gas stations all the time. However, this approval didn’t have any public consultation with the community, nor public hearings, both of which would normally have taken place. And, that’s ...

Love Makes The World Go Round ► Unpacking The Writer

Reflections on the last month Whew!!! It’s been a whirlwind couple of months and it’s long past time for another Unpacking The Writer. As longtime readers of Not Now Silly know ...

The Nuptial Nostalgia Tour ► Throwback Thursday

In August I announced my Road Trip to Canada, which took me to Hamilton and Toronto, cities I’ve written about previously. It was transformed into a magical road trip, filled ...

Pastor Kenny Responds

Pastor Kenny. Pics stolen from his facebookery. A Response to Your Pastoral Letter (Or How One Pastoral Letter Begets Another, Begets Another, Begets Another) I’m a FB neophyte, so it took me ...

Don Knotts Is Back ► A Morgantown Update

The Don Knott’s Memorial is back in its place of honour in front of the Metrpolitan Theatre. Avid readers of my Sunrise to Canton Road Trip for Research series will remember ...

Launching Throwback Thursday with The Westerfield Journals

RECENTLY REDISCOVERED: These are the pages in my journal I thinking aloud before I have my first-ever interview for my first-ever writing job. I must have impressed because I was ...

Announcing A Road Trip To Canada

Fans of my research road trips have a brand new reason to celebrate. The fun’s not over just yet. The next marathon road trip is called The Sunrise To Hamilton ...

Road Trips, Writer’s Block, and the Uncommon Cold ► Unpacking The Writer

So many things I can waste my time on when I should be writing If you’ve only been following along at the Not Now Silly Newsroom, there’s not been a lot ...

Sunrise to Canton Road Trip Report #1

A road trip of 3,000 miles starts with the first coffee at my local. Apologies to the regular readers of the Not Now Silly Newsroom for no updates. It’s been a ...

Packing Up The Newsroom ► Unpacking The Writer

My old house to the Viola Liuzzo Playground is just over 1/2 mile The 3rd Annual Sunrise to Canton Road Trip for Research begins early tomorrow morning and the excitement is ...

Charlotte Jane Memorial Park Cemetery Vandalized

Early this evening I received a call from one of my sources to tell me a crypt in the Sarah Jane Memorial Park Cemetery had been vandalized. A few hours later ...

Treacherous Double-Dealing ► Unpacking The Writer

In our last exciting episode of Unpacking The Writer, Bang The News Slowly, I revealed my part in a brand new grassroots campaign to get Harry Nilsson inducted into the ...

Playhouse Parking Problems Proliferate

Coconut Grove Playhouse panorama As I told my newest BFF, Art Noriega, CEO of the Miami Parking Authority, I don’t go to Miami to find problems with his parking lots. That ...

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