Laura Ruane

Retired business journalist who left her cozy log home in SWFL to be closer to family in the Big Bend. Love bicycling, hiking, canoeing and ukulele strummin’.

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@ATometich Better than a lemon!

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https://t.co/Yh9J1UQ5co

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@jackmjenkins The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar

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@CharlesRunnells @JeffMudgett Charles, is this Mudgett related to the Mudgett of Fort Myers-based Parker Mudgett Smith Architects?

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@jackmjenkins Have a blessed birthday, Jack! But then, isn’t every day blessed?

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@jackmjenkins Out There, stories from Outside magazine.

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@frankbumb Looks like you could use some General Tso’s chicken.

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We live near Bradley’s now, and endorse the pork. Wishing you a Merry Christmas, Annabelle!

[Annabelle Tometich @ATometich]

It’s hard to take PG pictures of smoked sausage but look what arrived today?!!! My deeply southern mother in law knows the way to my Filipina heart. Pork

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@janiehaseman Now I play uke in a lovely lakeside Tallahassee park, with a group of women friends. I’m learning finger-picking. Such fun!

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@LukeRussert The president carries cash? Or donated by other means?

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@jackmjenkins Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver

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@nytimes Let’s make sure Puerto Rico also is cared for.

[Craig Pittman @craigtimes]

Take a minute & salute all the #Florida #journalists who did their jobs & reported on #HurricaneIan while also dealing with the safety of their own families & belongings. Here's today's Fort Myers News-Press front page, reporting the destruction of its own town.

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@ATometich We’re out of the cone in Tally, but I plan to add good chocolate to my hurricane stash, just in case.

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@pbpost @Spadyelementary @pbcsd One s in “busing.” Bussing is kissing.

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@craigtimes Amen! I was blest to experience Andre Crouch & the Disciples at live concert, when I was a college student in California.

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@jackmjenkins The Man Who Invented Florida, by Randy Wayne White

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Totally sucks! You will overcome, though.