I have been thinking more and more about Stuart, Florida lately, as the weather turns cooler here in Denver. It is not terribly cold, at least not yet, but just enough to make a person miss hanging out along the water in a much warmer climate. My sister Susan and I would often visit our mother Mary down in Stuart, where she lived for almost 30 years. It is a beautiful place, with a quaint downtown and lots of beaches, not to mention many waterfront restaurants. Sadly, Jack Baker's Lobster Shanty and the marina it overlooked, where I took the photograph above of Susan and my mother in August of 1995, were destroyed by a hurricane in 2004. Hurricanes, of course, are the major downside of living in Florida. And these days, the insurance industry is raising the cost of property insurance so much that many people can no longer afford to live there. It would be nice if the State of Florida would do something to help lower those costs, but the governor, Ron DeSantis, is too busy running for president and fighting the evil empire that is Walt Disney to do anything about it. Everyone has their priorities, right? Perhaps he is hoping Donald Trump will be priced out of Mar-a-Lago. That'll fix him.
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