Each May 29 is national Alligator Day and today is Friday, May 29, 2026! So here’s my celebration of all … More
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A spot of tea is a reminder that college football begins Aug. 23, 2025!
A cup of midday tea today (Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025) served as a reminder that the 2025 college football season … More
Hooray for Hollyweird! ‘Gator’ stars Burt Reynolds and is ’70s action
We’ve begun summer of 2025 in earnest and I’m continuing the fractured phrase: Hooray for Hollyweird! Most of us love … More
A new vehicle for our family means a new home for my oldest memento of UF
Here’s the new home for my oldest memento from my day at the University of Florida. The Gator has a … More
2024 in review: Part III/IV of my movie reviews … get a ‘Gator’ or ‘Lightning’ or maybe a ‘Larry’ or ‘Mary’ before ‘Dawn’ up the ‘Eiger’ with ‘Grandpa’
Here we are at the third of four days of my look back at the 20 films I reviewed during … More
Movie review: ‘Gator’
When you consider the team of Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed on the big screen, you immediately think of the … More
Happy anniversary to my blog! 5 years today!
Today, May 22, 2019, marks the fifth anniversary of my blog. My first two posts were a movie review (“The … More
Today’s Disney photo: This Gator happy to be on Gator Bayou!
As a graduate of the University of Florida, I was pleased when I found out March 3, 2017, that by … More
Here is my 1,600th post to this blog
Well, this blog entry marks my 1,600th post to A Gator in Naples. I began the blog in May 2014 … More
12,000 page views, 286 movie reviews in 14+ months
Well, I have to write something about this blog today. In the just over 14 months I’ve been posting to … More
My Gator companion back on the road
I had been driving our van for several years as it moved to its ultimate fate in the scrapyard. Well, … More