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On Palm Sunday
Soldiers resting under the palm trees in Iraq, near the town of Karmah. (Photo from Michael J. Totten’s foreign correspondence blog) The children shout We’re here! We’re here! See their first palm at Florida’s border. Bodies relaxing under palm trees; the cooling … Continue reading
Tampa Minarets
Most of you who waste your precious time reading me know that I live in a semi-rural area north of Tampa Bay. I’m actually only 29 miles from the Tampa International Airport but my eldest daughter thinks I live in … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged British, domes, Florida, Fort Brooke, Henry B. Plant, history, minarets, Plant Park, railroad, Spanish, Tampa, Tampa Bay Hotel, Tocobaga, University of Tampa
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Riding a Bike in Tampa – While Black
Well Tampa, my adopted home town, must have the worst bicycle riders in all of Florida. “They don’t use lights at night. Don’t ride close enough to the curb. Can’t manage to keep their hands on the handlebars. In the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged bike riding, police harassment, racial profiling, riding while black, Tampa, Tampa Bay Times
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Gallant South
Originally posted about four years ago and re-posted each February The Great State of South Carolina still proudly flies the battle flag of the Confederate States of America – part of the “heritage” ya know. And here in my adopted … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged 1935, confederate flag, Florida, Ft. Lauderdale, history, lynching, lynching photography, photography, Rubin Stacey, slave state, South Carolina, Tampa
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Whitney’s Super Bowl
It was Super Bowl Sunday 1991 and the game was being played in my adopted home town of Tampa – in the old Tampa Stadium where the popcicle Bucs began their days. It was an all New York Super Bowl … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 1991, greatest anthem ever, Gulf War, history, national anthem Whitney Houston, Super Bowl, super bowl xxv, Tampa
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Convention
This was written and posted several years ago just before the G.O.P. National Convention here in Tampa Florida. It didn’t go over too well with the locals! The unsightly were removed from view lest you be offended We’ve moved the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged "illegals", "talent", beggars, cleaning up the streets, cooks, cops, GOP Convention, housekeepers, moving the homeless, poetry, seeing nothing objectionable, strip clubs, Tampa, tear gas
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