Jan Norris: Writer, Editor, Floridian

Jan Norris writes at all hours of the day and night. To keep up with Jan, please sign up for her once-a-day Appeteaser. We have a no-spam guarantee and you can opt out of the email Appeteaser anytime you like. Of, if you’re more of the RSS sort, you may subscribe to her feed.A little homage [...]

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My good friend Chuck Keefer has a new blog about the area, full of photos that are especially drool-worthy if you’re somewhere gray and dreary and snow-possible.
A recent post talks about a big (expensive) piece of history now up on the block: Parcels of the estate formerly attached to the oldest house on the island (Island is Palm [...]

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I went to lunch with the Post’s oped editor, Lou Ann Frala today and she was freaking out. She saw her first land crab. “I nearly ran off the road — I couldn’t take my eyes off this thing. It was going across the road and I couldn’t believe how HUGE it was! I went [...]

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My parents retired from Fort Lauderdale to a few acres in a sleepy little town in north-central Florida called Hawthorne. It’s little more than a stop in the road (U.S. 301 at S.R. 20), but it’s full of charm and very nice people. It has a ton of pecan trees all around, there are peanut fields up [...]

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It always amazes me that many who move to the overdeveloped edges of South Florida are surprised to learn how big this state is in agriculture. Tourism may be big on the coasts, but toward the center of the state, it’s all ag.
We rank high in almost all categories of foods that we produce: Winter [...]

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(Note: The links in this post take you to old postcards from the Florida Photographic Collection, maintained by the Florida State Library. It’s part of the State Archives.)
The trip earlier this summer to the Keys just made me nostalgic for what was. I passed far too many cars, condos, new developments and shops on the [...]

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