Grandpa Picks Up Wrong Kid From School My in-laws pick the kids up from various functions all the time. I can’t imagine this ever happening. Is this guy blond, or just so out of touch with his grandchildren that he doesn’t even know them? Please Mom, get him to an eye doctor, then introduce him [...]

You didn’t play the right numbers. What did you expect, some convoluted conspiracy theory about how Jeb Bush and the ghost of Lawton Chiles got together with a bunch of other He-coons to take pre-dawn walks and figure out a way to screw YOU? Anyway… Did you know that the Florida Lottery publishes a frequency [...]

I’ve always wanted to go to the Caribbean on vacation. Hey, Florida’s great, but sometimes I need a change of scenery. Every time I’ve mentioned it to anyone, they always start with “Hey, there’s this cruise ship…”, to which I jam my fingers in my ears and spin around singing “la la la la la [...]

Several weeks ago, I wrote about my experience donating a car to charity, in relation to a post about donating a boat to charity. tonight, I want to highlight an organization that donates vehicles. You could do what I did and scour the web and the yellow pages for an organization that is willing, worthy and qualified [...]

The original Halloween movie holds a place near and dear to my heart. Or, to be precise, the paperback novel spawned by the movie holds that place. Why? I was sitting in 9th grade study hall when the book was passed to me, earmarked somewhere around page 36 or so. It was the first time [...]

My mother owns a gift shop in Brooksville and I just want to help her search engine rankings with this post. She’s the only retailer authorized to sell Vera Bradley in Brooksville, and I believe one of two authorized to sell Vera Bradley in Hernando County. The name of the shop is The Paper Porch. [...]

Forgive them – they too young and dumb to realize that once you add a “fee”, it defies the laws of physics that state that something that goes up must come down. Fees never come down, and volunteering to pay them damns the students that follow to pay escalations caused by an ever-increasing portfolio of [...]

I just want to know – was this on the FCAT? I’m just saying… Guinness confirms Florida pupils broke reading record The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – It’s official, 186,054 Florida middle school pupils are world record readers. Guinness World Records confirmed Tuesday that they set a new record for “Most People Reading Aloud Simultaneously [...]

As a marketing professional, I can tell you that when someone wants to use your brand for something like an elementary school, that’s a good thing. But, leave it to the lawyers to screw up a good thing: World Golf Village, a registered trademark, will no longer be included in the name of the St. [...]