This and That

I couldn’t have been more blown away by a couple’s desire to fulfill a dream, and share a passion than last Thursday at my Kiwanis Club meeting. A bunch of enquiring Kiwanians, including myself, sat with our mouths open and our imaginations flowing as our guest speaker stood up, took the mic and said, “Hi! I’m Dennis and I have sailed around the world.” Full story »

Passion; what is it and how do you explore it? If you were to ask me what is a passion, I would tell you it’s something that gives you extreme joy. Full story »

Okay, so I admit it; I’m in a football state of mind. Can’t help it, it’s play-off time, the college bowls have graced our sports stations for the past week and it’s darn cold in Florida. Full story »

I feel like Paul Revere alerting the colonist “The British are Coming!” except I don’t need a horse to deliver the news, we have had a sports media blitz on the topic and it’s not a threat to me just the entire dolphin organization! Full story »

What’s next? What else is there to do other than clean up from the holidays. I’m not talking about the Christmas tree, that piece of greenery cost me a pretty penny so it stays up through New Year’s Day. Full story »

Well, I am happy to announce I did knock off some of those items on the “to do list.” Let’s see how I’m doing compared to you. Check my finances … yeap, I’m broke! Full story »

Thanks to the Internet, I was able to surf through every country and city around the world to catch the latest buzz on what is happening “on or about Christmas”. I did discover a lot of exciting outdoor things to do such as skating, sledding, skiing, snowboarding and building a snowman … oh yeah! We are in Florida … no can do. Full story »

On the road again ... How many of you had that song in your head during the week of Thanksgiving? Just call my daughters and I the “suitcase kids” because that’s exactly how our trip to New Jersey went; from one house to another and one bed to another. Full story »

Some of the best conversation I’ve had usually takes place between 8:00 and 8:30 in the morning. This is usually after the master’s swim program at the YMCA, while sitting around in one of the patio tables drinking Toni’s (our head lifeguard at the YMCA) coffee. It is the best part of the morning; it almost sounds like a Folgers’s coffee commercial ... “The best part of waking up is Toni’s coffee in your cup”. Full story »

We all have heard that infamous song “If I had a Million Dollars” by the Bare Naked Ladies and dared to dream as we heard the lyrics spill out of our radios. Full story »

Forget scary movies, outrageous costumes, stories of haunting and all the “boo - stacular” events that happened around us! The most haunting and daunting part of Halloween is what to do with all that candy! Full story »

Are there ghosts among us? Do you believe in ghosts or do you feel there is a scientific explanation for the strange and unusual? If you do believe, there is no need to worry —or to hid like a “skeleton in a closet”— because, according to one of the more recent Gallop Polls, one out of three people say they are believers too! (and statistics are climbing even higher in their favor.) Full story »