Stephanie Hayes

We're in the swampiest, doggiest days of summer, which means you may have heard creepy phrases like “flesh-eating bacteria” and “necrotizing fasciitis.” What are they?

I'm taking a couple late-summer days off next week to noodle around on leisure writing. Perhaps this sounds bananas to normal people, taking a staycation from a writing job to write, but, you know.

If you drive north on U.S. 19 for hours, turning onto the Apalachee Parkway only at the end of the journey, you'll reach the Florida State Capitol.

As a new school year gets underway in Tampa Bay , we're answering a reader question. An educator wrote in saying she knows plenty about education, of course.

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Greetings, students. With school in session, you're probably learning mnemonic devices, handy sayings and acronyms.

Dear Lake America, Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? Gosh, sorry. I never know how to start.

Time is a thief, yes, but also a cruel shape-shifter. It changes how we see things. I've been around long enough to know WestShore Plaza asthe cool mall.

Yearning for a time when a middle-class mall still stood a chance.

Dear Lake America, Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? Gosh, sorry. I never know how to start.