Category: Blogging
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The Wizard of Oz at the Straz: Bring the Kids
I hummed the songs all the way home Tuesday night after the Tampa premier of the Wizard of Oz at the Straz Center. Who doesn’t love “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” and “If I Only Had (a Brain) (a Heart) (the Nerve)”? Who doesn’t get that warm, fuzzy feeling when Dorothy…
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Share Your Best Mushroom Recipes for a Chance to Win during #ShroomTember
My wife and I fell in love over a plate of mushroom salad at a local fondue restaurant. No fooling. We did. Nothing says romance like a delicate pile of raw, thin-sliced and lightly seasoned mushrooms in a delicious salad, followed by cubes of French bread dipped in melted cheese…
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Swing, Fail, Swing Again
We played ball out back on a makeshift miniature diamond I mowed into the high, early summer St. Augustine grass. The 8-year-old stepped to the foam-rubber home plate, batting lefty, knees bent just so, arms high but relaxed, head cocked toward the pitcher — me. I wound up and tossed the…
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Alone Time at Disney Does Parents a World of Good
Our boys are not Disney deprived. This is the first thing I would like you to understand. Our family splurged on Walt Disney World seasonal passes last year, and our Year of Disney was a triumph. We love spending time as a family at all four Central Florida parks. We look forward…
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101 Things We Loved About Walt Disney World in 2013
The Year of Disney technically has not ended for our family. Our Walt Disney World seasonal passes are good until early February, and we will make good use of them between now and then. But as we approach the end of 2013, a look back at our still-fresh Disney memories…
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The Year of Disney: ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex
We’ll take our family’s Year of Disney to a new level Sunday when we report to the Boardwalk Inn for the start of a three-day media event connected with the ongoing Disney Sports Festival at Walt Disney World. Specifically, the event is designed to shed light on activities, amenities and…
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Let’s Talk About God
“Every mythology, every religion, is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.” – Joseph Campbell, the Power of Myth Our first summer in Florida, I was 13 years old and wheelchair-bound after corrective surgery on both feet. My parents sent my brother…
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‘Why do we go to Disney World, like, every weekend?’
Are you kidding me? A seven-year-old boy actually asked this question a couple of days ago while his dad was tucking him into bed for the night. “Daddy, why do we go to Disney World, like, every weekend almost?” The dad blinked and said, “Buh … wha … because it’s…
Carter Gaddis, Writer & Editor 
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