Archive for February, 2008

Rocks in the Snow

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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The skinny on being slender

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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Before they fade into Internet oblivion …

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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Bad names and good dogs

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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Tell me more about this place called Florida, puhlease

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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My boots are made for kicking

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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Snowmobiling in Yellowstone

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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