Archive For The “Family” Category

The Family Plot

By | April 26, 2010

Most families don’t have a family plot. Mine does. It’s at the Greenwood Cemetery close to downtown Orlando, and my family has been buried there since the 1930s. It’s on the first hill as you drive in, and family legend has it that J. Ray Arnold purchased the plot under the conditions that no other families would be [...]

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Losing People is One of the Hardest Parts of Growing Up

By | April 11, 2010

When I was 12, Kelly, my mom and I went to the Sony Ericsson with my Uncle Charlie (on the right in the picture above). Uncle Charlie was my Papa’s (left in above picture) older brother, and at the time he was 76 and LOVED to talk. He talked during every match that we watched on center [...]

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Cruisin Along

By | April 6, 2010

I’ve been MIA for a few weeks, which is partially due to a wonderful week in the Bahamas with Pete’s family. We went down to Miami on Saturday night, and then met up with Pete’s family for dinner along with my parents at an awesome Cuban restaurant called Versailles (thanks for the rec, Jon!), which [...]

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