Entries by LifeInNaples

Share the Love with your Love in the Secret Garden

Enjoy a magical evening under the stars, with a wisp of fantasy for a Valentine’s celebration on Wednesday, February 13, 2019. The 5th Annual Share the Love features Broadway-style musical performances and culinary cuisine prepared by renowned Chef Brian Roland and Crave Culinaire. With an enchanted theme inspired by Gulfshore Playhouse’s Teen Conservatory production of “The Secret Garden,” Share the […]

INAUGURAL PARADISE COAST

The Paradise Coast Annual Wellness Experience is set for Saturday, January 19, 2019. The event is the result of a year of planning by the Paradise Coast Wellness Tourism Visionary Task Force, established in July 2017. The event will be a celebration of the richness of wellness experiences offered in Florida’s Paradise Coast from Naples to Marco Island to the Everglades. […]

Technically Speaking by dave trecker

Technical advances are coming so fast we tend to take them for granted. Smart and smarter phones. Self-driving cars. Personalized medicine. Drones and robots everywhere. Yet that’s just the beginning. Borrowing from Bachman-Turner Overdrive, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” Take urban living, our cities,  even the greater Naples area, will look very different 15 or 20 years from now.   […]

The Snitch

With the recent publication of her new novel, Lacey King can add another skill to her résumé: novelist. Although her novel, THE SNITCH: An Agent without a Badge, is published as fiction, it is actually a true story; but it is not her story, which begs to be written. “Perhaps that will be my next book”, she normally answers […]

Diana Jarrett shares Chalcedony Charm

Creative jewelry artisans draw inspiration from nature and myriad other sources they encounter on their journey. Sometimes it’s a certain stone that causes a designer to stop and take a closer look. And that’s exactly what happened with jewelry artist Mia Katrin of Jewel Couture LLC. Who Likes Blue? Blue chalcedony is a designer’s darling. The microcrystalline natural stone is […]

The Art of Living in Paradise

January – and your friends and neighbors who are not fortunate enough to be Southwest Florida are very envious of the warm weather, the ability to get in your car without scraping off the snow and ice and not having  to bundle up in multiple layers of clothes. So plan to make the most of everything the arts have to offer in […]

THE 116TH CONGRESS

As we approach a new year and a new Democrat-led House of Representatives, there will be many areas of disagreement, but we do not have to face two years of stagnation. There are several issues that can, and should, lead to bipartisan legislation to benefit our country and Southwest Florida. Over the last two years I have worked continuously to develop a bipartisan commitment on […]

The New Year in Naples

We usually start out the New Year with wishes such as World Peace or a goal of losing a few pounds. Over the years we have kept some and others fall off of the radar. Seldom do we put much stock in any of them. This year I wish for the following with the thought that they be more than […]