This month at the Travel Blog Mob, the theme is Stupid Questions (although we all KNOW that there are no stupid questions, right?). It's all a matter of perspective.

So, our Stupid Question to answer this month: What is there to do in Michigan during the long cold winter months?

For me, Christmas has always meant gray skies and cold air, wood smoke and pine trees, home-cooked meals with hot chocolate, and, with a bit of good luck (or bad luck, if you’re the one doing the shoveling), a bit of snow. But how does Christmas in Disney compare? In some ways, the two are not that different.

If you only have time for one small-town festival this summer and you want it to be filled with enough silliness to make you forget all the serious stuff going on in your life, consider the Annual "Cheeseburger in Caseville"  Festival. It is too big for a weekend and runs every year in August. As you reach the city limits, you’ll be greeted by more pink flamingos than flock anywhere else north of Miami as the small beach town of Caseville morphs into Key North.

Florida Culture for the Week of February 23 by Josh Garrick

Feb 26 -- WILD Author Cheryl Strayed at Women’s Leadership Luncheon

Florida Culture for the Week of February 16 by Josh Garrick

FINAL Performance – Tonight -- Feb 16 – Valencia Theater’s Original Docudrama

Florida Culture for the week of February 9, 2015 by Josh Garrick

Feb 11 -- DIANA ROSS

On a drizzling day, when a distant British Queen sanctioned a Phillipant Australian Prime Minister’s “Captain’s Call,” turning a Pommy (Aussie slang for English) Duke (Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen’s husband) into Knight, we celebrated Australia Day on Sydney Harbour, afloat on a boat.

Florida Culture for the week of February 2, 2015 by Josh Garrick

Now through Mar 8 – To Kill a Mockingbird at Orlando Shakes

Florida Culture for the week of January 26, 2015 by Josh Garrick