Lunch with Rick Bragg

My friend Rick Bragg stopped off in Miami last week for a few days.

He was in town to do research for a magazine piece he's writing.

I met Rick almost 20 years ago, in 1990, when he came to Miami as the St. Petersburg Times South Florida bureau chief.

Back then the Times bureau was in an actual office in a building on Coral Way and 22nd Ave.

There was a reception area with a desk for a