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Lights … Camera … More Lights!
As I’ve said before, I love how my iPhone automatically collects memories and presents them as little videos. This is the one I received this morning. It’s from a trip to a Chinese lantern festival at Lowry Park Zoo (which…
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There Are no Stupid Questions, but There Are Definitely Stupid Answers
When college career counselors prepared me to enter the job market,1 they drilled one lesson in my head: Be prepared to tell interviewers why you want the job. That lesson sprang to mind a few days ago as I read…
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The Plot Thickens? Maybe Not.
One of the things that have been holding me back from writing a novel is that I simply can’t think of a plot. But maybe I don’t need one. I just finished the first three books in the Wayfarer series.1…
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Speaking of Boulder Falls
I mentioned Boulder Falls in a post earlier this week. It’s a hiking trail in Colorado (not as close to Boulder as the name suggests). Here’s a short video I made about our visit there:
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10 Days, 10 Photos, 10 Explanations (At Last)
I was recently challenged to post ten random travel photos on Facebook. The challenge required me to post the photos with no explanation, so I thought I’d have fun by picking photos from places that weren’t obvious. No Space Needle,…
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Meet my Running Buddy
I had some company on Bayshore Boulevard this morning.
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Trees? Please!
The Complimentary Spouse and I were in Orlando this weekend for a mini-vacation. As there is very little for tourists to do in Orlando, we spent one morning at Leu Gardens. I’m a big fan of botanical gardens and sculpture…
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Dos and Don’ts: Travel Recommendations from Britt and Dave
Travel ideas the Complimentary Spouse and I do not recommend Going to Cancun for fun when you’re a senator and your state faces an emergency of historic proportions. Travel ideas the Complimentary Spouse and I do recommend Routing your flight…
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Going Beyond the Basics of Benefits: Business and Government Perspectives
I’ve written before about my marketing mantra: Always promote the benefits. I got to do exactly that in a non-business context yesterday when I spoke at city hall to support a proposal to make Tampa’s Citizen Review Board more independent.…
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We’re Here. We’re Queer. We’re Statistically Significant.
A new Gallup report says that 5.6% of Americans now identify as LGBTQ. That number is significant for two reasons: First, it equates to 1.8 million people1; and, second, it’s a sizable increase from the 3.5% reported in Gallup’s first…
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Negative Self-Talk? English Major to the Rescue!
Everyone has good and bad days.1 On my bad days, I find it hard to silence that little disparaging voice in my head. While I haven’t been able to make that whiny putz shut up, I have been able to…
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A Clown in a Gown
Here’s a video of Bianca del Rio’s opening and closing segments at last night’s Drive N’ Drag show in Tampa. It is distasteful and disrespectful and you’ll be a better person if you don’t watch it.1 1 The person laughing…
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