Flora Maccoll
- Location
- recently moved from Gainesville, FL to New Smyrna Beach, Florida, USA
- Birthday
- March 28
- Title
- journalist wannabe
- Company
- retired
- Bio
- Born in NYC and raised in Miami, Florida. Have lived in Memphis, TN (was there in 1968 when King was assassinated); Bloomington, IN; Indianapolis, IN; Tallahassee, FL; Ft. Lauderdale; and now call Gainesville, FL home base.
Spent the majority of my career in the printing and publishing industry including 4 stints with various regional newspapers including the Ft. Lauderdale (now the South Florida) Sun Sentinel.
Artist, wannabe film critic, political agitator, photographer, and now blogger.
MY RECENT POSTS
- to new homes and new beginings
February 15, 2011 02:13PM - Valentine's Day Love Letter:
Dear Mom
February 12, 2010 01:48PM - Sotomayor on Corporate
Personhood: make that
"hoodlumhood"
February 03, 2010 05:50PM - Favorite songs: "Drive
Somewhere" Vulgar Boatmen
February 02, 2010 04:35PM - Moon Over Miami: Part 2 -- The
Plymouth Belvedere
February 01, 2010 08:43PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I love this, please tell
us more... flora”
February 17, 2011 12:15AM - “what a great trip this
has been. congrats Ken/Frank
(I kept
confusing you with
Ro…”
February 16, 2011 03:39AM - “@A: yes, it used to be
so. I'm afraid you'd be
very
disappointed if you
visited t…”
February 15, 2011 09:20PM - “Back readin' ya and
enjoying it after a years
absence. Good
stuff as usual
Frank.…”
February 15, 2011 06:52PM - “Monte: congratulations
on 20 years however you did
it. I'm
working on 5. To
those…”
July 09, 2010 02:41AM
Flora Maccoll's Links
- links related to my blog
- Kirk Nelson on Truthout
- Bernie Sanders December 16th speech
- Bill Moyers with Matt Taibbi and Robert Kuttner
to new homes and new beginings
"Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth:
And, O ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth." ... John
Milton, Lycidas
"You can't go home again" ...Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Anyone, like me, who grew up in south Florida, particularly Miami Beach in the 1950s and 1960s… Read full post »
Valentine's Day Love Letter: Dear Mom
Sotomayor on Corporate Personhood: make that "hoodlumhood"
Sotomayor: Overturn Corporate Personhood
It appears that Sonia Sotomayor will be an activist judge after all.
During arguments in a campaign-finance case, the court’s majority conservatives seemed persuaded… Read full post »
Favorite songs: "Drive Somewhere" Vulgar Boatmen
Moon Over Miami: Part 2 -- The Plymouth Belvedere
Dad bought a brand new 1955 dark green Plymouth Belvedere. It was a 4-door. I thought it was ugly. It was to be the only brand new car he would ever own. Eventually it would be the car my Dad taught me to drive in. It was 6-cylinder,… Read full post »
A more important video than the SOTU speech
Here is a link to Obama's web site with the entire speech and question and answer session at the Republican Retreat in Baltimore Friday:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/01/29/president-holds-open-discussion-across-aisle
"Fox Gnus" cut the live link forty minutes into this, when things started to… Read full post »
My Letter from Michelle Obama
I know I said my next post would be a continuation of my last. I lied. (haven't had time)
For anyone who read my open letter (which was 2.5 pages long, typed) to Michelle Obama (see my first post) here is an update: I finally got a letter back. I should… Read full post »
Moon Over Miami: Chapter 1 -- The Lullaby of Broadway
Growing up in Miami Beach in the 50s and 60s was, what can I say, unique. How many kids grow up playing good guys bad guys with mobsters from New York. I have some stories about it that I have wanted to tell for a long time. Dear readers, I… Read full post »
Film Review: "Avatar," 3-D or not to 3-D
Like a lot of people, I don’t go out to the theater to see movies much any more. Being an electronics freak I have the requisite 36-inch flat screen, but unlike most of you I have it rigged up to an old Sherwood amplifier with 5-channel output and my old,… Read full post »
Barack Obama: has he sold out to the... (eek) BORG?!!
That phrase keeps coming to mind, and today I actually read it somewhere. Resistance is futile. I am enough of a Trekkie to vividly remember the end of that episode when Capt. Picard was turned into a Borg/Cyber monster -- TO BE CONTINUED... It was one of the scariest moments… Read full post »
Mr. Moyers: I've made a portrait of you, keep in a dark room
New Year's Traditions: learning to shed my Yankee roots
Having spent my early childhood in Manhattan, my Mom learned to cook from ethnic friends in the projects, but somehow she never met a fresh vegetable in NYC. My idea of fresh vegetables came from the twice-yearly mashed rutabaga we would have on Thanksgiving and Christmas. And BEANS? Those would be… Read full post »
Open Letter to Michelle Obama: my Christmas wish list
December 25, 2009
Dear Mrs. Obama:
First, please accept my warm wishes for you and your family during this holiday season.
Like many people, I have a wish for this holiday season. I would like to see an end to human suffering. Of course… Read full post »
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