“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.” Having attended the 2024 Crescent City Catfish Festival on Saturday, I can attest to the validity of that proverb.

As an unmarried man with no kids, I live a somewhat untethered life.

“Nothing, nothing, nothing makes me happy,

Doing something is what I avoid

I adore diddly-squat; It thrills me a lot

Spring is in the air.

Part of being a journalist means I’m constantly thrown into different settings.

There is a saying that goes something like this ...

Life is like a road. It has bumps, cracks, and obstacles, but in the end, it gets you somewhere.

“Ever fondly we remember our Palatka High.”

– Palatka Junior-Senior High School alma mater

Moving to a new place is not an easy thing to do. I have been here for over a year and am still learning everyone’s faces and names.

“No one is so rich as to throw away a friend.”

– Chi-Chi Rodriguez

The storms in Putnam County over this past week could be a metaphor to action taken by the Florida Legislature in its last days of session.