Purple shutters, a boysenberry-colored porch floor and hot pink bougainvillea wrapping bungalowlike columns out front merely hint at the riot of colors inside 312 Virginia St., which boasts rose-pink...

Many years ago when I was the contributing craft editor for Family Circle magazine, I designed some projects using Rit fabric dye. Recently, when cleaning out my closet, I came upon an old pair of...

Gary Gethen and Rochelle Eannarino, orchid experts from MARC Plant Store, recently presented a clinic to the Key West Garden Club that answered many of the audience's questions about ailing orchids....

Conch kids roamed the streets in search of the fabled fruits of the Spanish lime tree (Melicoccus bijugatus) to use as gifts for girlfriends or slingshot ammunition. Like pirates of the...

FreeCreditReportForYou.com. Who doesn't get a chuckle out of those TV commercials? That winsome minstrel in the Renaissance Faire could warm even Suze Orman's heart. How cute he is carrying around a...

You will all sympathize when I tell you that I am writing this column while the Super Bowl is on. It is also my birthday so I am giving myself double points. I can't even comment on the outcome of...

According to historian, author, artist and all-around Key West factotum Sharon Wells, the houses of Key West "mirror a multicultural legacy of Bahamian, New England, African, Creole and Victorian...

There are three prominent kinds of capers. The first is the thorny Capparis spinosa that grows in the Mediterranean. The famed taxonomist Carl Linnaeus named it after the Latin word for...

Jeanne Arkin figures she bought a straight-on view of Smathers Beach at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean "that came with a condo." Then she discovered her condominium in La Brisa's east building even...

Ijust finished one of my last assignments before leaving for Key West. It is a magazine article called "Personal Spaces" about working at home, and this is an abbreviated version. I interviewed two...