YULETIDE IN FLORIDA, WHAT A SIGHT TO BEHOLD
TEMPS IN THE 80s WHILE YANKS HAVE FREEZING COLD
NO WHITE STUFF FALLING, PALM TREES ALL GREEN
BLIZZARDS DOWN HERE WE BUY AT DAIRY QUEEN
FLIP-FLOPS DONNED TO CELEBRATE BALMY WEATHER
T-SHIRTS OR SHORT-SHORTS REPLACE UGLY SWEATERS
BEACHSIDE BARBEQUES GRILL BURGERS AND WEINIES
SANTA’S WEARING BAGGIES MRS. CLAUS A RED BIKINI
FROSTY CAME VACATIONING TO ESCPAPE THE SNOW
TRIP BECAME A TRAGEDY WHEN HE MELTED TO H20
WHITE CHRISTMAS HERE MEANS A SNOWMAN OF SAND
WALKING DOWN A SUNNY BEACH ICY DRINK IN HAND
POLAR VORTEX CHURNING WARNS OF WINTER CHILLS
FLORIDIANS COMPLAIN OF SUNBURN AND AC BILLS
WE’LL LOUNGE ON THE PATIO, ENJOY A CUP OF CHEER
BUT KEEP IT A SECRET OR THEY’LL ALL BE MOVING HERE!
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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.
