Detailing life in tiny, artsy, anything-goes Key West—where Broadway composers and bestselling authors live on the same funky blocks as housekeepers, bartenders, and tour guides—this updated collection of essays and columns about island life features pieces that first appeared in the Miami Herald. Profiles of colorful characters such as an Italian heiress who waits tables, a dishwasher with a PhD, and a taxi-driving opera singer provide a kaleidoscopic portrait of residents living, working, and playing in a caste-free, rowdy paradise.
Detailing life in tiny, artsy, anything-goes Key West—where Broadway composers and bestselling authors live on the same funky blocks as housekeepers, bartenders, and tour guides—this updated collection of essays and columns about island life features pieces that first appeared in the Miami Herald. Profiles of colorful characters such as an Italian heiress who waits tables, a dishwasher with a PhD, and a taxi-driving opera singer provide a kaleidoscopic portrait of residents living, working, and playing in a caste-free, rowdy paradise.
A sequel to the bestselling Postcards from Paradise, here is a fresh collection of essays and photos that chronicle the extraordinary lifestyles in paradise, gleaned from this insightful storyteller's love affair with Key West. There are a million stories in Key West and June Keith seems to know them all.--Dave Barry. 60 photos.
Going on vacation? Take me, take me!Postcards From Paradise is not your average coloring book for adults. The blitz of blinding dots and squiggles seen in traditional adult coloring books are monotonous and never-ending. Those pages take way too long to complete. One fellow we know took well over a year to complete one coloring page! Of course, he did not color every day but each time he did he felt he made little progress. He did, however, reap the meditative and relaxing benefits of coloring.Postcards From Paradise presents you with beautiful tropical scenes to color that are ready to be completed and admired in a sitting or two, and at your own pace. It includes other activities such as a variety of fun puzzles and journal pages for your enjoyment and reflection. The journal pages are called SUNBEAMS. They can shed light on your thoughts, dreams, doodles, lists, or memories. It's your world!As you step inside these pages and begin to transcend into the tropical scenes, you will mimic nature's own display of color and light while sensing and feeling its energy. Nature is our inspiration. It is the ultimate master artist that endows us with breathtaking vistas and perfect pallets of spectral light that surrounds every aspect of our lives. In a word: COLOR!As a BONUS: Included in Postcards From Paradise is a brief 'how-to' for using Chroma (color) Therapy to practice meditation. You will learn how to associate specific color frequencies with your seven physical energy centers called chakras. There are quick explanations and affirmations for each color as it resonates to a particular energy center in your body.¿Or just color beautiful tropical scenes and solve the puzzles!If you are not on holiday, Postcards From Paradise is waiting to take you far away to tropical islands where the trade winds blow gently through your hair, the sunshine embraces you, and lush, swaying palm trees beckon you to come. Take a big slurp of a fruity tropical drink. Sit. Relax. Enjoy. Breathe.Lock the door. You are now on vacation.
POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE - A TUCSON SPRING is the poetic diary of a 6-week visit to Tucson, Arizona, by a couple in their 47th year together, as they return to the city where they were married and lived for a total of ten years, first in the 1960s and again in the 1980s. Their current impressions are layered over their earlier memories of "the Old Pueblo" and the surrounding Sonoran desert which they once regarded as a kind of paradise. These "postcards" are different from any you have ever encountered.
This is a somewhat strange story of the transition of one mind from communist subjugation to freedom. It all happened in Poland in the years of 1963 to 1983. The road to liberation was rather convoluted and peppered with unexpected twists and turns. It takes the reader on an unusual trip through late 20th century history.
