Tag: Blumes

The writer Judy Blume lives in Key West—“an exciting place to live,” Blume told me, in March, when I visited. Chickens roam free, orchids “grow like weeds,” cats wander in Hemingway’s house, and disco plays out drag-bar windows, all in DeSantis-era Florida. Blume and her husband, George Cooper, moved to Key West thirty years ago, and have been doing their best to foster a kind of quotidian paradise, for themselves and the community. They live on the water and walk