You gotta love a place where sharks cause traffic jams

How cool is it that the week I start Tropic of Mom (which has a spiffy new look, no?), the Miami Herald sends me an e-mail saying it has a brand-new online forum for South Florida parents called MomsMiami? Oh, those reporters are good. Too good -- it's like they're going around inside my head! Sorry, reporters -- my boy takes up enough of my mindshare. You'll have to get a scoop somewhere else!

Speaking of the Herald (or the Hrelad if you can't spell), I loved its article about how a shark caused a traffic jam on Lower Matecumbe Key. A fisherman was doing a catch-and-release deal with a lemon shark, and apparently hordes of people driving by just stopped their car on the road to go over and see what he was doing with the nine-footer! Sadly, though, the people trampled some native plants that was a poor Eagle Scout's now-ruined project. If that was my son, I would be so mad!