Posts in category Local Observation

HOTEL REPORT: $16.8 BILLION LOSS IN STATE & LOCAL TAX REVENUE FROM HOTELS IN 2020 DUE TO COVID-19 IMPACT Download New Report by Oxford Economics with …

Local Observation  / GOOD TUNES By Christina Oxenberg In our post apocalyptic Key West springs up a new bar. Not unexpected, granted, but I like …

Local Observation / WHY SAY YES By Christina Oxenberg In all these years, since that first hubby, and this includes the second hubby, I have …

Christina Oxenberg for Local Observation PANIC LOVE Yes, Key West is different in a multitude of ways. Much for the better. Some is crippled. After …

Local Observation / CIA ~ CRACK IN AMERICA by Christina Oxenberg Over the years I’ve lost a few books. Books I’ve written. The third book …

Local Observation / CIA ~ CRACK IN AMERICA By Christina Oxenberg Over the years I’ve lost a few books. Books I’ve written. The third book …

Christina Oxenberg for Local Observation / THE VIEW Frankly I’m a little insulted. I spent five years up a hill in the rebel stronghold mountains …

Local Observation / YOU’RE WELCOME By Christina Oxenberg I’m driving in the center of town and slowly coming up on a green light. Slowly because …

Local Observation / CASTLES & COTTAGES By Christina Oxenberg Growing up in England I was introduced to magical Scotland. America is the country of my birth …

Local Observation / BOULE By Christina Oxenberg We lived in Morocco in the suburbs of Marrakesh. We left a dinner party in the old part …

Local observation / NOW~ By Christina Oxenberg She operated with each breath she took. Her lies and her fantasies were one and she’d been weaving …

Local Observation / THE TROPIC OF SWANK By Christina Oxenberg A dinner party in Swankville, mid-Florida and I’m wearing a jacket. A lady guest asks …

Local Observation / THE TROPIC OF SWANK By Christina Oxenberg A dinner party in Swankville, mid-Florida and I’m wearing a jacket. A lady guest asks …

Local Observation / NUTS By Christina Oxenberg While driving around the south east, as a hurricane was eating up my home and I along with …

Local observation / BROTHER By Christina Oxenberg The battered Keys islands are deceptively restored, new full grown trees are stuck in the ground along the highway, …

Local Observation / SUNDAY STORY  OFF THE WALL By Christina Oxenberg After sixty-four thousand hours of travel I am home on my atoll in the Caribbean. My …

Local Observation / THE HOUSE OF O! By Christina Oxenberg 1903 in a palace in Serbia the King and Queen trembled. In retrospect maybe it was …

Local Observation / TRADITION By Christina Oxenberg Losing everything, overnight, seems to be a family tradition. Luckily for me I am not encumbered with materialism. …

Local Observation / TRADITION By Christina Oxenberg Losing everything, overnight, seems to be a family tradition. Luckily for me I am not encumbered with materialism. …

Local Observation / NICOLE DENNIS-BENN By Christina Oxenberg At the 36th Annual Key West Literary Seminar this year the theme is Writers of the Caribbean, and …