Tag: Tallahassee

• OUR URBAN OASIS

  

  A Place of Calm in the Middle of Chaos We live on the southeast side of Tallahassee, but when we drive a mile from our home to a city park, it’s hard to believe we’re so close to an urban area with a population of 200,000. We call it Piney Z after the name of…

  P. C. Zick

  August 12, 2025

  environment, Life in the United States, mindfulness, Ramblings of a Writer, travel, wildlife

  camping, Florida, Florida environment, hiking, kayaking, natural Florida, nature, outdoors, Tallahassee, travel

• An Asheville (Mis)Adventure

  I dreaded the three-week trip even as I planned. I worried too much. Lists filled a notebook: To Do, To Pack, The Morning of Departure, To Buy. I checked off items one by one until it was the morning of departure, and that list began to dwindle. Something happened the closer I came to deleting…

  P. C. Zick

  September 9, 2024

  Ramblings of a Writer, travel

  Asheville, hurricanes, journey, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Tallahassee, tornado, travel, Virginia, West Virginia

• THE WORLD OF COVID-19

  I decided to get out of the house yesterday, so I drove to the nearby Wacissa River boat ramp where we often put in our kayaks. It’s an isolated park, so I brought a lawn chair and a book. A mile from the ramp, a flashing sign informed me the river access was closed. A…

  P. C. Zick

  April 11, 2020

  Ramblings of a Writer

  COVID-19, COVID-19 testing, Florida, golfing, social distancing, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Tallahassee, wearing masks