Trisha Yearwood loves food — the warmth, the creativity, the memories certain dishes evoke. The country music star wrote her first cookbook, “Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen,” with her mother and her sister as a way to memorialize her father and keep him alive through their shared love of favorite recipes. “It was so …
Susan Zurenda didn’t plan to be an author. She started college pursuing a music degree, something she said was her mother’s dream. Yet she’d always been a writer, penning skits for Girls Scouts and scripts for the school talent show. And she’s always, always been a reader. “My mother took me to story hour at …
It’s not often an author credits a car accident with jump-starting their writing career, but in Suzanne Allain’s case, that’s exactly what happened. “I was a computer programmer right out of high school and then became a technical writer,” the Tallahassee-based writer said. “It wasn’t until I was recuperating from a bad auto accident that …
Over the past 18 months, we’ve seen things we never would have thought possible. We’ve watched a pandemic sweep across the globe. We’ve watched lives put on hold, families separated, policies change and change back again. We’ve watched an extremely contentious election. We’ve watched a crowd of protestors, many heavily armed, rush into the U.S. …
These days, you’d be hard pressed to find many people who would describe politics as “an honorable calling.” But in his new memoir, “Citizen Mack, Florida Senator Connie Mack” (who served as a member of Congress from 1983-1989, and as a Senator from 1989-2001) reminds readers that it hasn’t always been this way. It was …
Many people have probably heard of the five love languages: quality time, gift giving, acts of service, words of affirmation and physical touch. I would like to propose a sixth: food. Joy Sheffield Harris, author of “The Florida Cracker Cookbook,” agrees. “This project started because I wanted to find out why we eat what we …
If you or a loved one has graduated from high school or college within the past four decades, there’s a good chance you own a portrait taken by Bob and Gail Knight’s photography company. The Tallahassee couple built a business empire, now called Iconic Group, by photographing graduates as they matriculated, capitalizing on their unique …
Craig Pittman has what he calls the greatest job in American journalism: writing about the environment for The Tampa Bay Times. “I get paid to go out on a boat,” he enthused. “And Florida has no end to the wacky, weird environmental stuff…” Known for his “Oh, Florida!” column and a book by the same …
The bad boy of Florida’s Republican Party is back, with another fascinating read on politics… although this one could also be characterized as a self-help book for Democrats running in the 2020 Presidential Primary. Rick Wilson, author of “Running Against the Devil,” is hoping his newest book will be seen as a strategic plan for …
When I told my mom I was interviewing Cassandra King Conroy, wife of the late Pat Conroy, she was jealous, and a little starstruck. “Oh, honey,” she said on the phone. “How cool!” (This is how I knew she was starstruck. My mom is not normally so… succinct.) I was a little dazzled myself, so …
