Growing Bolder Community

Recent conversations started me thinking about how different growing up in Key West must have been from other places. I'm not politically correct, at least not consciously so. I don't have to censor my words because I simply don't have those thoughts to weed out. You know the ones. We did not have racial issues, or at least I can't remember any. So recently, I started thinking...what if I am...

When I was doing graphic design work for a local printer near Orlando, Florida, we had a film stripper who set up our work to make plates for the presses. He was a really good guy and we got along quite well. I was from New Jersey and he was a Florida native. A lot of people from here have a fair amount of resentment towards people from other parts of the country, especially northerners. If you...