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Author: Lucy Cortese

Living my personal mission statement, “Each One, Teach One,” my greatest blessing is being the mother of two, grandmother of three and a lifelong educator. A graduate of UF and UNF, I am the former principal of St. Paul’s Catholic School in Jacksonville Beach, Florida and executive director of Tree Hill Nature Center in Jacksonville. Since retirement my avocation is now my vocation – freelance writing. The technical writing of past professional life evolved into more creative genres of poetry, short fiction and memoir. My goal is to invoke the entire spectrum of human emotions in my reader: longing to laughter, pain to promise, despair to discernment.

PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ

You know the old saying…”I’ve been thrown out of better places than this!” How about getting tossed out of a five star resort? By bouncers?

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Beach Mountain Diner

ADEEB LAUNCHES BEACH MOUNTAIN DINER First Coast restaurateur Barry Adeeb is serving up a novel eating venue. His recipe for dining success: Take the building

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25 NEW YEAR WISHES

25 NEW YEAR WISHES Author Lucille Cortese more flowers, less weeds more sunshine, less rain more listening, less talking more dancing, less watching more laughter,

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Discordant Descant

Are you the sister that sings or the other one? This question reverberates throughout memories of my childhood. Living with a sibling who rivals Sarah

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Mane Mania

My hairI want it long, straight, curly, fuzzySnaggy, shaggy, ratty, mattyOily, greasy, fleecyShining, gleaming, streamingFlaxen, waxenKnotted, polka-dottedTwisted, beaded, braidedPowdered, flowered, and confettiedBangled, tangled, spangled, and

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Postcards Jax Beach

Lucy Giardino Cortese JAX BEACH POSTCARDS Bathing beauties sashay across the sand Norma Jean look-a-likes hand in hand Ancient times before bikinis and thongs Transistor

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