There’s something to see here. And almost everywhere else.
Welcome to OutLooking, a place where I noodle around on life and related subjects.*
I’m Keith Croes, an ordinary guy living on the Treasure Coast of Florida, meaning a lot of Spanish treasure has been found offshore by good old boys, retired astronauts, or some combination thereof. As John Glenn, in the form of Ed Harris (mouthing words from Tom Wolfe), said in “The Right Stuff,” I sometimes feel “like a lone beacon of self-restraint and self-sacrifice in a squall of car crazies.”
It’s not j
ust Florida, of course. It’s the times in general—our nation and our nation’s place in the world.
Anyway, I’m guessing most of the treasure has been found by now, although the Lagina brothers and colleagues appear to have been cheated out of a sizable recent chunk of the booty.
My start was in community journalism: at 14 years old, rolling up newspapers for subscribers-by-mail at the Jersey Shore (Pa.) Evening News, where Hunter S. Thompson worked his first journalism job after college; in the U.S. Army as a reporter for The Harrison Post, in Indianapolis, Ind. (under a great editor and good friend, John Beach, who died in May 2020); at County Lines magazine, serving southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware; in medical journalism (which is community journalism for people with medical degrees) and as a stringer for The Philadelphia Inquirer; then in medical marketing communications, which is as dry as it sounds, but rewards inaccurate and/or misleading writing with hefty FDA fines; and finally as a freelance writer and editor.
Most of this blog is mirrored at Medium.com, if you prefer that particular venue. Either way, no trees are harmed, no 14-year-old hands inky from newsprint, and maybe the discovery of a little bit of treasure.
Keith Croes
* “Life and Related Subjects” was the name of Dave Barry‘s weekly humor column in West Chester, Pa.’s Daily Local News, sometimes called the Daily Lacka News by the folks at WCOJ Radio, Coatesville, Pa., where I worked part-time. Barry left the newspaper and ended up salvaging a Pulitzer Prize down here in Florida.
OutLooking 
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