Visit Tampa Bay: More than Bucs, Baseball and Roller Coasters

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Nearly 120 years ago, a Tampa Bay vacation meant a trip down the railroad built by Henry Plant, to the most magnificent hotel of its time.

There, beneath the Moorish minarets*, the cream of US society partied in the most luxurious surroundings that money could buy, in rooms furnished with treasures from around the globe.

Today, many visitors to Tampa Bay know Busch Gardens, the Columbia Restaurant, the many golf courses, and beaches of Clearwater and St Petersburg, but they leave without a broader taste of what the area has to offer. Continue reading →

Donations for Youth: Project Promise

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Dear Friends of Project Promise (Teens in Residential Foster Care)

Thank you  for all your help with our work with foster teens. The girls are again loving the project and the Director and staff extend their thanks to you for the sense of abundance and fun you help to create for girls.

How you can help:

1) We are collecting magazines for Dream Boards, Identity Boards etc for both projects. The more diverse an array of magazines we can collect, the better. Any type or number of magazines, with pictures is welcome. I will recycle all unused portions.

We are collecting the same items as earlier this year for the foster teens. The main target items are anything for teen girls. These include: Continue reading →

Golfing with Gators (by Hilton Ross-Munro)

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Golfing with Gators. (Copyright Hilton Ross-Munro: A Humorous view of life in Tampa Bay)

Getting old is not easy, but the American Dream provides a distraction from the pains of aging by linking it with a great consolation. Those who survive a life of honest work are rewarded with the right to move to Florida and play golf.

Golf is one of the most difficult and frustrating games to play. For some reason, it is much harder to hit a stationary golf ball than a baseball or tennis ball hurtling towards you at close to a hundred miles an hour. So when people reach the wisdom of maturity, they move to a place where sadistic golf course architects have built thousands of courses, placing an infinite number of hazards in diabolical ways, in a climate which is a natural sauna, and they have time to play these courses as many as seven times each week. Continue reading →

Foster Kids: Report 9th May

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Things are going well with our Foster Teen Project.

My guest room has disappeared under the donations from our kind community and the sorting continues.

Tonight is shoes and handbags night at the facility. Debbie Marvin is assisting and will speak to the girls, to help to consolidate knowledge from the video that the girls watched on how to dress if you are short. (Yes Debbie, my darlin’, I am calling you ‘short’.  Four foot nine inches is ‘short’! Even in Tennessee. :) )

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Seniors in Tampa Bay

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Getting older brings many challenges. In a changing world, there is too much of some things, and too little of others.

As I watch my mother and mother-in-law cope with retirement, they sometimes have too much time alone, too few old friends near-by, and their families are too busy earning a living, or living in a rat-race that get faster all the time.

Seniors have too many technological challenges, endless expenses for their fixed budgets, less reliable health, and many sources of sadness as they lose old friends and dearly loved spouses. Continue reading →

Tampa Seniors Group: an Invitation

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http://www.meetup.com/New-Tampa-Seniors/

New Tampa Seniors is taking off! The group has been to lunches, plays, IMAX and has a regular monthly meeting at Club Tampa Palms on the second last Wednesday of each month at 11 a.m.

Please join via the meet-up site or email me at glynis@c-psolutions.com. You can see the current members’ pics on the Meet-Up site. It is free. Continue reading →