More of Mandy Miles' Tan Lines: Only in Key West: A hilarious look at island living and life in general
About the Author Mandy Miles was known as Mandy Bolen when she arrived in Key West, Fla. in July 1998.  Fresh out of college and drawn to the island of endless summer that had beckoned since her first visit at the age of 16, Mandy eagerly accepted a job as a fledgling reporter with the Key West Citizen. She covered meetings of the county commission, city commission, school board and every other board that meets twice a month in the Florida Keys. She covered crimes, fires and first days of kindergarten. Then in 2001, she volunteered to try her hand at column-writing and started revealing her “Tan Lines” week by week. People seemed to like what she wrote, so she kept doing it, often driving her friends crazy with the weekly panic of finding a topic. Eleven years later, she is still a fixture at the Key West Citizen, currently as its business editor and resident columnist.  Mandy Bolen became Mandy Miles on April 10, 2010, when she married the love of her life, Capt. Stan Miles, at the Key West Garden Club.  Cold drinks and colorful people in a hot town have provided enough education, insight and insanity to keep her notebooks full for more than a decade. But weekends in Key West still find Mandy lying on a pool float or beach chair – working on her “Tan Lines.”