Fountains, art exhibits, a building bigger than an Aldi… I used to think all libraries were made equal. But now, having roamed the Pinellas and Hillsborough county library system (Tampa Bay area) I realized that the difference between PCPL, HCPL and my hometown (CCPL) Naples libraries were like comparing my drabby apartment to the…
Author: Pyra-Danny
TIME TO HUG NATURE IN NAPLES
It’s great to be a tourist in my great hometown. I’ll save my past middle-through-high school, teenage snubbing of Naples, FL for another time. On Saturday, I left the golf courses and winter getaways of Naples and seemed to head for the surrounding swamp. It wasn’t a purely Seminole experience; I landed in Rookery Bay—nature…
USF’S ANNUAL JOURNEY TO THE EAST BANQUET
For one week, University of South Florida Asians have been smacking other cultures through food, dance, and games. It was USF’s Journey to the East celebration. (You dance hip-hop? Filipinos will show you hip-hop! You like noodles? Club ASIA will MAKE you noodles!) It was a way to proclaim talents while welcoming new students (black hair or…
MY TREASURE AT ELDORADO CANYON PARK
I’m sorry Red Rocks Park… you just got ROCKed, STONEd, and national PARKed! [Pyra adds the last story to her Colorado vacay series… a few weeks late…] Since my clan was still running around the Boulder, CO area, we wanted to see the mountains that were surrounding us and teasing us with their… bumps. We…