Milestones and Friends

Several momentous events occurred in my life in 2005, beginning with a month-long trip to Italy with my daughter, newly graduated from college. When we returned home, I moved to St. Augustine, ninety miles away, as a newly divorced fifty-year old, beginning life in a new city with a new job. Feral cats roamed the

Snow Inspires Florida Writer

I woke to a fairyland of snow-covered trees and lawn on a day when I thought I would be waking up to the marsh and swampland of the Everglades. I’d planned a writer’s retreat while my husband attended a conference in Reno. We began by spending a week with my daughter and her boyfriend in

Remembering Extinct Humans

By Patricia Zick @PCZick As the forty-third anniversary of the first Earth Day approaches, I’ve been thinking about endangered species – those species on the brink of becoming extinct. Extinct. Such a final word we apply to the animal kingdom. But did you know there’s a group of humans who lived in north Florida who

In the Raw: The Present Moment Cafe

By Patricia Zick @PCZick I wasn’t sure what to expect when my daughter Anna told me she would be a “cook” at an all-raw restaurant. With fourteen years as a cook in a variety of restaurants, Anna knows her way around a kitchen. When she began working at The Present Moment Cafe in St. Augustine,

The “porpoise” of life

Happy 2013. We made it past the end of the Mayan calendar, but not sure if we fell off a cliff or not. I wish for you all peace and prosperity this coming year and may you all discover purpose in your life. If that’s not possible, I hope you at least dance as free

Finding the Road to Happiness

By Patricia Zick @PCZick I wrote Raising Independent Children about my daughter moving to Oregon. Here’s a follow up to that post. I stood on the bricks of an old St. Augustine street just after dawn one Sunday morning. Tears streamed down my face as I waved to the back of a VW bug. My