Welcome to the only city of live mermaids – Weeki Wachee Springs. Photo: Adrienne C. Wilson “Ahhh-ah-Ahhh-ah-ah-ah-ah-Ahhh—-” Ariel, The Little Mermaid Seeing Disney’s, The Little Mermaid and seeing the mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs are two different life experiences. As I’ve gotten older my memory can’t recall whether I saw the film, The Little Mermaid [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2007’
Christmas Wishes from Florida!
Seasons Greetings and Merry Christmas from la familia: Marci, Eric, Pedro and Adriana. Photo: The Mothership Me, my bro, his girl and her bro. Photo: The Mothership Okay, so for obvious reasons I should not be on the computer blogging. It’s Christmas – duh? Right? You’re not supposed to do anything, but sit around a [...]
The Real World – Tampa
This is the true story of seven friends picked to live in Chinyere’s three-bedroom townhouse to eat pizza, play taboo and catch up on old times. The Real World: Tampa. Photo: Edward (E.J.) Jordan III For the past few weeks I debated on having a holiday gathering at my place for my friends and family. [...]
Was I An “Ugly American?”
A popular Tajik soup type dish I had while in Dushanbe last year. It was pretty tasty from what I remember, yet considerably oily. Photo: Adrienne C. Wilson When off teetering around in some foreign place I do my very, very best not to do something to shame my fellow American citizens. I may have [...]
Bits & Pieces
Moi, Rick and Chi at Chi-Chi’s Game Night / Fight Party last weekend in Tampa. Doesn’t it look like my hand is growing out of my face and onto Rick’s shoulder? Photo: Chi-Chi’s Sis Local Excursions: Last week I had the opportunity to check out my first Cirque du Soilel show in Orlando. It was [...]
Letter to the North Pole
Dearest Santa & Mrs. Claus, I’m being very lazy right now. I should be building a spreadsheet for my accountant to look over for next years taxes and such, but I have no desire to touch the receipts or to think about what the IRS wants to take from me. If you’d like you can [...]
Instant Gratification: Photos for your Coffee Table in Exchange for Money in my Pocket.
My first published book! Photo: Adrienne C. Wilson Okay. So after much pushing and shoving from some close friends and family members I finally decided to do something with my photos. I MADE A BOOK. Sound the horns someone! Please! However, there are a lot of mixed feelings on my part in crafting the book. [...]
Today is the First Day of the Last
Month of the year. I’ve been busy working and brainstorming. Trying to figure out exactly what soil in which countries I plan on visiting next year. So far it looks like Ethiopia in the fall for Habitat (fingers crossed), but I’ll have more details in the coming months. For now if you haven’t already heard [...]
