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Sun N Fun Gets Slammed

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Joe Clark

It is early, but late. I have slept too long. It is after 6 a.m. and I am usually up and writing by 5:45 most mornings. But last night was a late night and so I understand why I am … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Life in General, Personal | Tagged a comforting rain, airplanes, airplanes upside down, Cessnas, double-check the weather forecasts, editors, Florida, flying, friends, get up to make coffee, go back to sleep the word processor, hangars demolished, lightning and thunder, open cockpit biplanes, pilots, professional pilots, radar screens, rain, student pilots, Sun N Fun, Sun N Fun Gets Slammed, taildraggers, Tampa, The Lakeland Airport, the pinging of hail, the Sunshine State, the telecommunications expert, thunder, tornadoes, training aircraft, typesetters, typewriters, up and writing by 5:45 | 1 Comment

Learning to Read

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Joe Clark

I always knew I was going to be a pilot and I also knew I would be a writer. When it came to reading and writing, there are a couple of people to whom I am very indebted. My mother … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal, Reading, Writing | Tagged baby-books, bookmobiles, books appropriate to age-level, boyhood crushes, Florida, friends, Hillsborough County, Learning to Read, Marianne, mom, new worlds, pictures in books, Pierce Junior High School, pilot, reading and writing, Saturday morning, Tampa, The world of words!, writer, writers | 3 Comments

Cold, Part II

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Joe Clark

I wrote (really complained) about the cold in an earlier blog on December 6th, but maybe I was a little premature with my moaning and groaning. Now it is really cold! Throughout the entire United States, it seems as though … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal | Tagged citrus crop, citrus farmers, cold, Cold Part II, Daytona Beach, December, Florida, freezing, freezing to death, front yards, getting out of the cold, grapefruit trees, hard freeze warning, January, Melbourne, Midwest, motorists, North, orange trees, Orlando, plastic pink flamingos, record lows, Tampa | 3 Comments

Cold

Posted on December 6, 2010 by Joe Clark

I realize we Floridians will not gain a bit of sympathy from y’all UPN. But dang it! It’s cold! And this is Florida. Right now, sitting in my office while writing this, the outside air temperature is 39 degrees F. … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal | Tagged California, cold, cows standing in the snow, Florida, Floridians, incredulity, Minnesota, oceanfront pastures, opposable thumbs, Pacific Coast Highway, real Floridians, Tampa, UPN, warm enough for the beach! | 5 Comments

The Sunshine Skyway

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Joe Clark

Yesterday my wife, her parents, and I visited her sister in Bradenton. It was a nice afternoon – except for the Gator’s game – that was a pretty hard loss to the Seminoles. Afterward, we started home to my in-law’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Aviation History, Flying, Life in General, Personal | Tagged B-26 Marauder, Capricorn, Captain Al Ford, commercial airline flight, Cuba, Fort Brooke, in Tampa Bay”, instrument pilot, Jimmy Doolittle, MacDill Field, Seminoles, snook, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Tampa Bay, Tampa International Airport, Teddy Roosevelt, the birth of scheduled airline flying, the Gator’s game, the Rough Riders, the Spanish American War, the Summit Venture, The Sunshine Skyway, Tony Jannus, USCGC Blackthorne, WDAE 1250 a.m. radio, World War II, “One a day | Comments Off

Live, Love, and Laugh

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Joe Clark

Live, love, and laugh. It is a saying of which my in-laws are very fond. You can find it on the wall of one of their favorite restaurants in Tampa, Daddy’s Grill. That little saying says a lot about life. … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal | Tagged Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, classmates, Daddy’s Grill, dinner with great friends, friendship, good friends, in-laws, laughing with abandon, Live love and laugh, living life, loving without boundaries, mates, shipmates, squadron mates, Tampa, teammates, Wind Sand and Stars | 3 Comments

It Is a Small World

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Joe Clark

When we came in last night from our visit with friends, we began going through our usual getting ready for bedtime routine. One part of this for me is a final check for book sales and clearing the email. There … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal | Tagged a cousin on the other side of the world, book sales, Bradenton, childhood memories, email, Europe, genealogical research, getting ready for bed, Havana, Internet, It Is a Small World, junk email folder, memories, shared memories, Tampa, visiting friends | 1 Comment

The Kite Tale

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Joe Clark

In 1959 when my mother divorced, she did not want to return to Southern Alabama. For whatever her reasons, she decided Tampa was the place to be. My uncle lived on Idelwild Street and my mom bought a house two streets … Continue reading →

Posted in Life in General, Personal | Tagged Cuba, flying kites, kite tails, Southern Alabama, Tampa, The Kite Tail, Uncle Buddy | 2 Comments

First Blog, An Introduction

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Joe Clark

OK, this is a new blog, probably numbering somewhere up in the tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions currently on the Internet. If you are reading, good for you! I humbly hope you are interested enough to continue … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation, Life in General, Personal | Tagged ancestry, Cuba, flying, genealogy, growing up, Tampa, writing | 4 Comments

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