Author Archive
What Would You Ask?
We know you’ve probably participated in “one-click” voting online with instant results. SCOPE wants to ask questions to get a sense of Sarasota County residents’ opinions. What questions would you pose to the community about local issues important to our residents?
Post your ideas in the comments below. We will run the best on SCOPE’s [...]
6-Word Contest Winner!
Our 6-Word Contest winner is Evadne Mela! Congratulations! Evadne has won a $25 bookstore gift certificate.
Her winning novel is: Rug burns, shotgun wedding. 50th anniversary.
To read the runners up, click here.
Thank you to everyone who entered - there were so many great novels.
Running in the Grocery Store
I’ve got a confession: sometimes I see someone I know in the grocery store and I purposefully head down another aisle. Not because I don’t like that person, but because I simply don’t feel like making that nice smalltalk that is required of grocery store interactions.
At a networking event, I would never do that. In [...]
The Racial Crossroads?
At SCOPE, we have been thinking about the shooting at the Hollywood 20 and about our response, as individuals and as a community. It has been difficult for me to sort out all the different threads of my thoughts into a coherent blog post.
Then, I found this video that addresses some of the things I [...]
Community Gardening
Once, I lived in a place with a community garden. Now that garden has turned to a patch of weeds and sand.
When I first moved to Sarasota, I lived in an apartment building in Laurel Park. It was close quarters. I lived in half an old carriage house and my front door was 10 feet [...]