Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Last week I wrote my first blog on the new Tallahassee.com. Today I am writing my second blog and I will attempt to follow the advice of a colleague. My colleague’s comment went something like there was “too much snow” before getting to the main point. My colleague wasn’t talking ...
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- April 6, 2008 -- Goodbye futon, hello couch
- July 25, 2008 -- Summer readin’, had me a blast
- June 4, 2008 -- Why I’d decline to be anybody’s vice president
- May 9, 2008 -- Where should I get poked?
- November 24, 2008 -- FSU’s Myron Rolle is worth the hype
- March 6, 2008 -- False light makes it harder to report news
- April 29, 2008 -- The marriage pact
- November 14, 2008 -- At the scene of the plane crash
- December 1, 2008 -- I have never been so wet
- November 26, 2008 -- My dog Hershey finally meets his match
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
I have always been the skinny girl and have always caught hell because of it. You see, I'm the only skinny one in my family, so I've been an outcast all my life. (People have gone so far as to ask me if I'm adopted -- how rude is that?) ...
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- March 21, 2008 -- Doughnuts and lingerie
- March 4, 2008 -- Whose keys are these?
- July 24, 2008 -- Political endorsements and why we still do them
- March 18, 2008 -- Rochester homicides 1993: 68; 2007: 48
- August 24, 2008 -- Get out of town, Fay, and don’t come back
- November 3, 2008 -- Tallahassee gets the Republican snub
- July 14, 2008 -- Kudos to the city: I can walk to Tom Brown next July Fourth
- June 3, 2008 -- Oh, come on: FSU’s Posey is too busy to be president
- July 15, 2008 -- Make this child’s death a call to action — not to more rhetoric
- June 2, 2008 -- High price of gas is reason to rediscover nearby treasures
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
As you know, this is a new Tallahassee.com, and the old site will fade into the unknown ether. So, I'm saving some of my blogs from the old site for posterity. Here they are:Jan. 29, 2008Let Dad use the 'fatherly tone' In my years as a reporter covering government at ...
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- May 22, 2008 -- New news: reassignment, freecycling and burning
- September 22, 2008 -- At least the weather was nice
- March 26, 2008 -- Build it and they will come
- November 29, 2008 -- Would you rather a FSU win or BC loss today?
- April 17, 2008 -- Hurricane season is coming! Are you prepared?
- August 15, 2008 -- 65-Life: Tyrone Members sentenced for two homicides and assault
- December 16, 2008 -- Working with high-schoolers a commitment worth making
- April 10, 2008 -- Yard Sale! Saturday!
- May 23, 2008 -- He’s going for the glory; I’m going to watch flames shoot out his arse
- November 28, 2008 -- Yes, I had no tofurkey
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
During one of my many trips driving down Highway 27/98/19 to Clearwater I noticed this simple white sign with blue stenciled letters that made me pound the steering wheel and laugh out loud. The sign was for a little bar in Dixie County called The Wet Spot. Yeah, that's right. ...
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- December 15, 2008 -- How to save newspapers: Buy one
- March 13, 2008 -- Just a feeling that we haven’t heard the last on DePuy harassment case
- February 26, 2008 -- Tell me more about this place called Florida, puhlease
- March 25, 2008 -- Criminals who will never be caught or punished
- February 29, 2008 -- Rocks in the Snow
- August 4, 2008 -- Grand jury report proves need for opening records in Hoffman case
- August 19, 2008 -- Weakened, well-behaved Fay is welcome to visit
- October 16, 2008 -- Cocktails with the Calendar Girl
- May 28, 2008 -- His pain was my gain
- June 3, 2008 -- If this doesn’t make you want a dog, nothing will
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
If there's one thing I've learned in my relatively young life, it's the importance of being able to laugh at myself.Fortunately, or unfortunately, - I'm not sure which one - this has been a lesson I've learned not by choice, but by circumstance. I'm a little clumsy, sometimes a little dense, ...
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- March 24, 2008 -- Prepare yourself for the "Wrath of the Lord," Mr. Bush!
- April 7, 2008 -- I don’t want ‘too much truth’ on FSU broadcasts
- August 14, 2008 -- Scrooge! [Thoughts upon reading reactions to today’s story on poverty in Rochester]
- June 9, 2008 -- Don’t be like the bonehead at the FSU game
- May 20, 2008 -- Betting that FSU’s Parker keeps his word to stay out of trouble
- September 17, 2008 -- Relax, blogs and forums are just people talking
- October 9, 2008 -- Sorry, but we should expect better than this from America
- July 28, 2008 -- Why the city ‘fired’ volunteer Mary Moody
- July 16, 2008 -- Closing public records erodes confidence in public institutions
- June 20, 2008 -- No one met me in St. Louis
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
I know you all have been waiting for the funny to return to my blog. Thank you for being so kind as to let me pour out my grief. I appreciate all of your sincere comments. I promise (at least temporarily) to only incite tears of laughter, so go ahead ...
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- July 14, 2008 -- Kudos to the city: I can walk to Tom Brown next July Fourth
- August 22, 2008 -- With Fay en route, here’s our coverage plan
- July 30, 2008 -- Problems at park leagues go beyond one ‘firing’
- April 29, 2008 -- For the love of Lloyd Dobler
- May 22, 2008 -- New news: reassignment, freecycling and burning
- March 3, 2008 -- Moving dilemma #237: A purging desire
- April 10, 2008 -- Suburban and Rural Drug Abuse Not Reported Locally
- December 4, 2008 -- I’m gonna party like it’s my birthday
- September 15, 2008 -- Robert needs a decent bike (and a helmet)
- October 13, 2008 -- Another ’screed’ from the local ‘nitwit’
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Traveling is one of my passions – anywhere, anytime! Sometimes my family thinks I work in order to afford traveling and they are right - to a point. When my daughter was at Florida State University and my son was at University of West Florida my money went to them, ...
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- March 23, 2008 -- Putting my new lawn mower on lock down
- April 30, 2008 -- Attack of the mounds
- April 3, 2008 -- Today’s Headlines: Slow news day?
- March 18, 2008 -- Correction: 50 in 2007
- November 6, 2008 -- Cocktails with the Calendar Girl, and why I won’t be America’s Next Top Model
- July 21, 2008 -- Old-School is how I roll
- May 5, 2008 -- Honored to be a maid
- August 22, 2008 -- Fake Plastic Things
- June 13, 2008 -- All is a go for NO
- October 30, 2008 -- So, young voter, what’s it gonna be? Are you going to make a difference?