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Canoeing the Everglades (part three) South Joe River to Joe River.
This is part three of a multi-part travel series. If you missed part one and want to start at the beginning, you can find it here: https://authorrickfuller.com/2021/08/08/canoeing-the-everglades-part-one/ The guttural, echoing trumpet of air woke me from a troubled, freezing, uncomfortable sleep. I opened my eyes to darkness and shivered in the frigid air. I’d neglected to……
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Canoeing the Everglades (part two) Flamingo to South Joe River.
This is part two of a multi-part travel series. If you missed part one, you can find it here: https://authorrickfuller.com/2021/08/08/canoeing-the-everglades-part-one/ “Would you like to purchase a SunPass for use on the toll roads?” the callously disinterested rental car clerk had asked the previous day when I’d picked up our car at Fort Lauderdale International. “How……
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Canoeing the Everglades (part one)
Fifteen years ago, I spent four days solo kayaking the Everglades on the northwest portion of the Wilderness Waterway, and since that trip, I’ve often felt the siren-call of that vast river of grass beckoning me to return. In December, 2020, while the global Covid-19 pandemic raged, the empty and lonely wilderness of mangroves and……
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The Man Who Sowed Irrational Fear and Created MORAL PANIC
On August 12, 1958, Congress passed Public Law 85-623, an “act to prohibit the introduction…into interstate commerce of switchblade knives…” This law became commonly known as the “Federal Switchblade Act,” and it was the culmination of a concerted effort by lawmakers backed by an outpouring of public support that can all be traced back to……
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Who Wants to be a Cop?
There’s never been a better time to be a criminal in America than right now. There’s never been a more challenging time to be a police officer in America than right now. Police departments around the country are facing a crisis like they’ve never before faced in their history. An existential crisis in some ways.……
Author Rick Fuller 