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 Original post: https://fmbislander.wordpress.com/2023/07/28/beach-elementary-a-unique-firsthand-perspective/ BY Ellie Bunting  (Special to ...

  https://fmbislander.com/2023/07/24/no-date-for-reopening-matanzas-pass-preserve/ I haven’t been writing like I should, but I did post one ...

https://fmbislander.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/fort-myers-beach-library-update/ To view all my recent articles, visit FMBIslander.com My new F...

  Video credit: @DebyRoxane Photos I took last week: The famed dive bar at 2201 Estero Blvd was decimated by Ian and demolished today by hea...

  It sits at the end of Connecticut Street and is my favorite spot to take my coffee and journal to greet the day! No better place to catch ...

I'm in the process of starting a new venture -- an online, independent news site specific to Fort Myers Beach. I previously worked for t...

In my last post about my blog name, alma mater and fandom , I ended on a player I did not originally care for. He arrived at Florida State f...

My Dad moved to Tallahassee in April 1986 for a new position. He would lead the Florida Credit Union League. We helped him move into a small...

  CBS Morning News - 1 Apr 2023 WTHR-Indianapolis, 1 Apr 2023 The National and Local news this morning led off with the deaths in Sullivan C...

It was 6 months ago today that my ISLAND HOME was decimated by Hurricane Ian. I watched all the coverage I could the morning of September 28...

On their Agent Provocateur album, Foreigner sang "Two Different Worlds," and that song just came back to me as I was about to star...

...the world lost a great woman, my maternal grandmother, Kathryn "Kate" Dunning/Larson/Wright... One of my most favorite blog pos...

You can read part of the story in the news article, below, published on page 4 of the 1 Sep 1911 Evansville Journal newspaper. It tells of t...

The year after my mom died really sucked. I wasn't ready to experience grief like that. I wrote that December just how awful it was . Th...

Woke up from a vivid dream near 5 a.m. where I was helping others, being a connector and living my best life. It felt really good. It got me...

In this ever expanding Universe, we are not even a grain of sand or a blip on the cosmic radar. We are truly insignificant in the galactic v...

SUICIDE IS NO JOKE. Our history, collectively, with mental illness is not good. We've forever made it the butt of jokes, quickly labeled...

There have only been two other posts this month. It's been a month of soul searching. When I wrote my Hell 2.0 post in early October , ...

I was watching an Eckhart Tolle video where he was reading from the Tao Te Ching. In the excerpt he read, "Master" was a feminine ...

I'm a rock-n-roll guy; have been for a long time. But I started out listening to my parents' record collection. And because I had a ...