Coexist: A Celebration of Peace

by Denise // 21 November, 2009 // Comments off

Today, Run DMT is featured as a guest blogger on Good Mourning, Glory! Read about how my family coexists and incorporates other cultures into our Christmas traditions with the help from our Advent calendar. When you stop by, check out... Continue reading →

30 Days of Giving

by Denise // 10 November, 2009 // Comments off

The other day, a friend on Facebook shared in her status update how she would be spending the month of November. For the next 30 days, she and her family would demonstrate acts of giving, which had been inspired by... Continue reading →

Guavaween Then and Now

by Denise // 29 October, 2009 // Comments off

On the last Saturday in October, we celebrate Guavaween which is Tampa’s (actually Ybor City’s) Latin version of a Halloween Mardi Gras. Throughout the night, young and old parade the streets in slutty creepy outlandish costumes. Year after year (many moons ago before... Continue reading →

Picked the Perfect One

by Denise // 28 October, 2009 // Comments off

At the Sweetfields Farm this past Saturday, my family and I hopped on a hay ride, ran through a hay maze, explored a corn field maze and pumped water from a trough. We love visiting pumpkin patches during the month... Continue reading →

A Firecracker on the Fourth

by Denise // 6 July, 2009 // Comments off

At last year’s Lutz Independence Day 5K Run, I cramped terribly within the first mile, which I believed to be a result of starting off way too fast (7 mm) and perhaps being too hydrated. Since last year’s race,... Continue reading →

Happy Fourth of July

by Denise // 4 July, 2009 // Comments off

The other day, my oldest daughter mentioned that she wished kids received gifts on the Fourth of July like other holidays. I replied, “You get many gifts, such as freedom and liberty.” Thank you to our forefathers who sacrificed their... Continue reading →