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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 from Tampa to London through Los Angeles because you want…
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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. I’m grateful that others were able to offer legal perspectives,…
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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 report nine years ago. Many people will be tempted to…
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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 lessen his impact. The trick is to use the right…
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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 uproariously in the background is me.
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Yeah, It Makes Me Smile
A few days ago, I wrote about how much I missed live music and shared a few videos from 2019. Here’s a clip from another concert I absolutely loved: Lily Allen’s No Shame Tour at Terminal 5 in New York on October 20, 2018. This is one of my favorite…
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Music Makes the People Come Together
One thing I miss from the pre-pandemic era is the concerts. I can complain all day about astronomical ticket prices, crummy opening acts, and how much I hate waiting for performers to take the stage. But none of those really matter, because a concert is a chance to experience music…
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It Takes a Lot of Chutzpah to Write a Blog Post About Yiddish
The other day, I felt a bit sick and told the Complimentary Spouse I was going to have a bissel of ginger ale. He knew exactly what I meant. At long last, the Yiddishification of my shaygetz husband is complete! Yiddish might be a dying language, but I’m not letting…
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I Will Always LV You
Here’s a glimpse at the Super Bowl LV Experience at Julian B. Lane Park in Tampa last weekend. This is the only public event the Complimentary Spouse and I have visited since the pandemic began. Everyone mostly appeared to be following the rules, although people were closer together than they…
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Around the World in 80 Department Stores (Well, Actually Just 12)
Updated September 22, 2024: Added new photos of KaDeWe in Berlin. You can learn a lot about a city by visiting a flagship department store. You’ll get a sense of what people wear when they’re dressed to the nines, and when they’re just lounging around the house. You’ll see how…
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