This weekend, I had a buddy in town from South Florida.  He was an old neighbor in a great neighborhood called Coconut Grove.  Well, seeing him brought back a ton of memories from Miami. I went to graduate school at Florida International University.  That’s where I received my MFA.  What a great school. But I almost love the city as much as the school.  I’ll never forget driving over the Julia Tuttle Causeway in my Buick LeSabre with my father, my brother, and a car packed with all my shit during a hurricane that was quickly degraded to a tropical storm.  My father wasn’t going to allow a tropical storm to stop our travel itinerary.  We had driven down from Massachusetts and stopped at few…