I wrote a guest post on my wife’s blog: When the cat is away, the mice will guest post She’s having a minor medical procedure Wednesday morning and is a bit miserable due to a combination of not getting pain medications and ingesting high-powered laxatives. Of course, I tried to show my soft, sensitive side [...]

Yes, I know this is a Florida blog. Yes, I know this is a NY-centric post. So? Those NY-ers that aren’t already living here soon will be. And this guy needs some support, so check out the drawing of the girl of his dreams. Maybe you know who she is – a family member, a [...]

So, it’s been a few months, I think, since I wrote about church. Don’t worry this isn’t about religion. There is a difference, you know. (Again, for those that don’t know my opinion on discussions of religion and God and whether he exists or not, allow me to tell you: It’s none of your business. [...]

I’ve written on other blogs about my personal interest in Alzheimer’s. I’ll spare you the long saga because I’ll have Alzheimer’s by the time you finish reading it, but in a nutshell, my grandmother spent the last 15 years of her life with this dread disease, and my aunt spent the best years of her [...]

    My pirate name is: Dirty Tom Flint     You’re the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean — not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. Like the rock flint, you’re hard and sharp. But, also like flint, you’re easily chipped, and sparky. [...]

I made the trip down to Brooksville this weekend to see the family and eat red meat with bloggers. Colleen and her husband, Jim, served up some damn tender steak and tasty corn on the cob, complemented by the Fabs‘ potato salad and my contribution, Sonny’s baked beans, for which I broke into Sonny’s and [...]

Girl, 8, donates birthday money to family of murdered BSO deputy

If you’re not related to this Florida man with 100 grandchildren, don’t worry – your grandchildren’s grandchildren will be. This is one fertile dude! I could have 10 kids, but my wife and I have only had sex something like 6 times, so the math just hasn’t worked out. What? Math isn’t my problem?  

About half of my family are small business owners – small in the sense that they’re basically family-owned, but at least one is a multi-million-dollar business and another is well on it’s way. I’m also dipping my toes in the water with these blogs o’ mine. I’ve been asking a lot of questions, trying to [...]

A little girl flees hurricane Dean on her bike? Yes, it’s true. In Deland, police stopped a girl who had been missing for some time and was last seen riding her bike. When questioned, she told them she was scared about Hurricane Dean hitting Florida and was riding back home to Ohio, where the family [...]