Many beverages conjure the upcoming winter holidays: mulled wine, hot cocoa, peppermint-flavored tea and lattes. But for my family, nothing more aptly toasts the season than an icy, pulpy glass of orange juice, just-squeezed from Hamlins grown on my grandfather’s grove in Zolfo Springs. (It’s great with a splash of champagne, too.) My family relishes […]

I walked into my neighborhood Publix one night in 2012 and immediately spotted a man in line for Powerball tickets who was far better dressed than the usual gamblers. The lottery line offers a cross section of the Sunshine State’s poor to middle-class residents: young and old, fat and skinny, gay and straight, white, black, […]

SIESTA KEY The modern main home was built in 2007. Its 4,755 square feet of living space includes three bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths. The adjacent 935-square-foot guest home is the restored 1948 Revere Quality House, built in the Sarasota School of Architecture style. The guest house has two bedrooms and one bathroom, and was originally […]