about the columnist

who is St. Augowski

St. Augowski writes from somewhere between the parking meter and the public meeting.

His notes are short.
Some are mean.
Some are kind.
Most are tired.

They are about St. Augustine, St. Johns County, and the little civic headaches that come from loving a place while watching everyone try to sell it, fix it, pave it, preserve it, visit it, brand it, and explain it at a microphone.

He has no office.
He has no beat.

Just a notebook,
a bad mood,
and the terrible habit
of paying attention.

“the terrible habit
of paying attention.”