NEW FLORIDA RESIDENT BLOG

Welcome to paradise. With each blog entry I try to provide help for new residents of Florida.  I have lately been asked about raising children here and what might make it different than other places in the United States.  There are more empty nesters in Florida on a per capita basis but, I think the real challenges lie in a changing society rather than the number of residents under 18. Rocky learned something from his haters yesterday and it was eye opening.  Honestly, I remember realizing I had haters when I was younger and the reason was straight up jealously.  It's easy to come to that conclusion when you are older than 6 however, I was worried that Rocky would not realize he was doing so well in life because of how most kids are now raised.  At school drop off in the morning you can hear the majority of parents telling their kids to 'be kind' as the last communique before they start their day.  I was thinking recently that because parents are so focused on kindness that

Welcome to Paradise..... I'm probably a bit behind on my blog, it's been a busy month and I didn't finish a single entry in October.  I could say that it was all because I was working on my voting plan but honestly - I haven't really thought about voting since I moved to Florida.  My ballot comes in the mail because of some answer I gave the last time I renewed my driver's license.  I fill out the ballot and return it the day it arrives. It's easy to do. But I would like to let all the political advertisers that a bunch of us have already voted and your ads are wasted on us.  Honestly, even if you catch me before I vote I've read up on the issues and have selected all of my choices and your 60 second vignette is never going to sway me.  But good luck to you, just remember I have voted, it's too late to change my mind and I never reveal who I cast my ballot for.  It seems slightly uncouth to me, the burden of being from New England. Home Search