Congratulations to those of you who won copies of MY DEAD GIRLFRIEND in the megcabot.com Haunted Valentine give-away. If you are one of the over 300 entrants who did not receive an email informing you that you won, do not despair–there will be lots of opportunities to win free books in the future. Just keep  Read more »

Nobody does Halloween quite like Key West, Florida…. (…or Key Weird as it turns into this time of year). And I'm not talking about its annual Fantasyfest celebration, which will be going on this weekend. No, I'm talking about my favorite local tradition, the… Pet Parade! This year, I went armed with a digital camera,  Read more »

Driving lessons are cancelled for the time being: I have strep throat. I've been prescribed bedrest, Zithromax, codeine cough syrup, and as many JUDGING AMY reruns as I can find. I think my feelings about this would best be summed up by the epitaph on this tomb in the Key West Cemetery: More later, when  Read more »

There's good news and bad news: The bad news is they picked Rosie O'Donnell, and not me, as Meredith Viera's replacement on THE VIEW. I know. You would think after a moving letter like mine, they'd have been banging down my door to get me to come co-host their show. But I guess it was  Read more »

REAL WORLD KEY WEST, and oh yeah, SAVING WOMEN'S LIVES (not necessarily in that order): So if you haven't done so already, go out and get the April issue of MARIE CLAIRE magazine, the one with Drew Barrymore on the cover. It looks like this: Go buy it now! Don't worry, I'll wait for you  Read more »

This is my house…. This is my house with a big rubber tent being put over it: This is why they had to put the rubber tent over my house…because they were pumping it full of: They do this periodically in hot, moist climates because it is the only way to stop termites from eating  Read more »

BABY CHICK RESCUE!!! So the other day I was walking home from Waterfront Market, where I went to buy sugar free hot cocoa mix (because it got COLD here for a few days last week), and suddenly, in front of the Key West Library, I heard: “CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP!!!!” I am used to hearing  Read more »

Hello, and Happy New Year! Did any of you watch the drag queen drop in Key West on New Year's Eve? I did. Last year I actually went down the street to see it live, but this year I wasn't in the mood to battle the crowd, so I watched it on CNN. Sushi, Key  Read more »

Go here if you are feeling low on holiday cheer. Then click on TV ads, turn up your sound, and enjoy. Yes! Now you can download my favorite Christmas ad, called The Countdown! And yeah, okay, it's an ad. But it's so fun and pretty! And the song is so great (you can download it,  Read more »

I don't know what's happening to me. Last year at this time I was SO not in the holiday spirit. And this year, I've basically gone mental. I keep buying things like this…. Look what happened to my front porch. The hideous (and dusty) cherub wall sconce cannot escape my holiday decorating mania…. Even Mrs.  Read more »