LEGOLAND REBUILT

Forget the t-rex, now you can watch the prince slay the dragon. It’s almost magnetic, everybody who passes the Legoland store in Orlando’s Downtown Disney Marketplace has to whip out their cameras and grin tooth buckets. Besides reliving childhood memories at the creation stations, the many models and tall replicas beg to be photographed. Now there’s more…

A FISH GOT STABBED…

Ah, a nice calming walk through Tampa’s Lettuce Lake park. Ah, a tiny picnic while catching the free entertainment of inspiring ROTC youth playing football. Until… a fish got stabbed! I stumbled upon a lucky (or unlucky) long-necked bird that had stabbed a poor, poor fish with its beak, but the fish would not slip…

LENT: CELEBRATE LIFE AND DEATH

More than a month ago, I took my decent Catholic ex-school girl butt to church to have ashes placed on my forehead. It was one of those Catholic traditions that didn’t put too much thought into—I ran from work to church and my mind was on grocery lists  and war tactics for cleaning my room….

PYRA IS A TERRIBLE MOTHER

I didn’t know what my kids were up to. I have declared how much I love my work and its location. I spend two hours a day going between St. Petersburg and Tampa leaving my children in the dark. They have probably grown more accustomed to their aunties’ faces than mine. My precious platy fish….