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    Editor’s Picks, The B Roll: A Break, a Bridge and Blue’s Clues

    March 19, 2022 - By 

    All the blog highlights this week start with the letter B! My son is on Spring Break, so we headed to Alabama to see family and wish my grandmother a belated happy 80th birthday. Before we left, we did an unboxing for Blue’s Clues & You: Blue’s Big Baking Show, taste-tested a cool new Limited Edition Sakura Box from Bokksu, and I shared one of my scarier childhood memories for the WordPress #WordPrompt of the month: Bridge. WordPress #WordPrompt: Bridge This is my first time participating the WordPress WordPrompt project, where they give you a writing prompt every month based…

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    A Very Scary Bridge Story: The Collapse of the Sunshine Skyway

    March 12, 2022 - By 

    The WordPress #WordPrompt for this month is “bridge,” and when I think about bridges I can’t help but remember the day the unthinkable happened: the Sunshine Skyway, a bridge I traveled over many times, was struck by a freighter and collapsed into the Tampa Bay. It’s something that fueled my nightmares as a kid, and left me with an uneasy feeling when crossing any large bridge still to this day. The Sunshine Skyway is Falling Down…Falling Down It was May 9th, 1980, and my 5-year-old self was waiting for my stepdad to make it home from Tampa. It was storming…