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I haven't posted recently because my creativity is at zero. It's odd, because normally, I would think to myself: hey, something's not right here. My thought processes have slowed. But when your thought processes slow, you don't have those thoughts...and you don't know you're sick. So this week I came fairly close to death and didn't even know I was sick. Welcome to life with diabetes....

Europeans have the idea that Americans are brainwashed by a sensationalist media, and I'm beginning to see why they believe this. I've always argued that we are not as gullible as we may seem, but the reaction to the Swine Flu makes me wonder. When the media feeding frenzy began churning out half-truths and erroneous information regarding the spread of the disease, I recalled the same...

Dolly the dolphin was a rebel by nature. She simply refused to follow orders. That's why the Navy released her from the dolphin research project in the keys, and why she was socialized to prefer human company to dolphins. Without her navy trainers to play with, she found a new family to adopt. Luckily, this family were friends of our family. They lived on the end of a canal leading to the...

People often ask if I ever met Jimmy Buffett when they learn that I'm from Key West. Most of them are surprised by my answer. Course I did. Everyone did. The friendly, easygoing persona he projects on stage is exactly who he is. The first time I remember being aware of him was when I was about 14 or 15 and my new best friend was a girl named Tammy...Cassom, Casson, Kason...something like that....

It's taken days for me to decide what my first blog post on growingbolder.com should be about, and I finally decided to start with a general rant about politics because that's the hottest topic on the web today. I'm a Democrat. I imagine a lot of people will jump on that because you'll perceive it as being for stuff that you're against. You're probably right, so jump away, I can handle it. For the...