Walking my dog is an arduous task. My mother-in-law taught her that dogs walk humans when she was a puppy. I hate to admit that I don’t have time to go through training her how to walk on a leash, so I don’t “walk” her often. Luckily she has a back yard that she uses [...]
Do you ever listen to the news and just find yourself thinking, what in the world were those people thinking when they did what they did? For example, never hitch a ride with a stranger. Most of us have been told this since we were children. Just when you think people are smart enough not [...]
I was speaking with my brother from Chicago recently. He told me that he had found a cell phone at a local club. The owner didn’t even have the keys locked. If my brother were a “bad guy”, he would have just hit the jackpot! You have to love modern day technology. Cell phones with internet access, etc.
It was a beautiful morning in Florida today. I really wanted to walk the beach to change the scenery of my exercise routine as I haven’t done so in a long time. Our beach is usually pretty calm except for a few locals and some tourists here and there. I wanted to live close to [...]
As I was brushing my teeth and polishing my ring with my toothbrush, it reminded me of a story I had just heard. There was just a jewelry salesman that went to a town in Colorado for a trade show. He went into a coffee shop, goes back to his car, and three masked robbers [...]
It won’t be long before Saint Patrick’s Day is here! I remember wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day when I was growing up so as not to get pinched. Why do people DO that anyway? Some say that it started back in the 1700’s. If you wear green, you will be invisible to Leprechauns (a [...]
Well, this Friday is Friday the 13th! Where did all of the “Friday the 13th” superstition come from anyway? Is this a day we should be weary of? Well, folklore that has been passed on shows that 13 is an unlucky number and Friday’s an unlucky day. I don’t know about that one! I think [...]
Yet another weekend has come to an end. This was the first weekend of Gasparilla. Tampa rescue crews responded to eighty calls for service, the majority of them were for falls. The police made one hundred and forty-one arrests. Seventy-three of them were for misdemeanors, and fifty-seven of them were for underage drinking. There were [...]
The annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival is coming to Tampa soon! I never even heard of it until I moved to Tampa. I was invited to go by some new friends, and they said it was kind of like Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It was interesting to say the least! There were parade floats (mainly [...]
It’s almost Valentine’s Day! That day was associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. It was named after two early Christian martyrs named Valentine.