announcement

St. Pete Pier Birthday Celebration

August 28, 2009

The Saint Pete Pier is celebrating their 20th birthday this Saturday, August 29th, with free activities and cake (1pm) from noon-2pm in The Pier’s Dockside Activity Room. There will be the Surfin’ Raccoons, Raymond the Tampa Bay Rays mascot, hat making from newspapers, Fishy Bingo and more. The Pier is inviting everyone in town, so [...]

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Walk for Lupus Now

May 16, 2009

On Saturday June 6, 2009, 9 am to noon, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, the Greater Florida Chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America will present Walk for Lupus Now 2009, a charity walk to benefit people with lupus. We are all familiar with diseases for which there are charity walks, such as breast [...]

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2008 Inkwatu Favorites

March 4, 2009

Hawaii, Waikiki Beach at sunset It’s been one year, almost to the day, since I began the Inkwatu blog. I had no idea how much personal satisfaction writing the articles and taking the pictures would bring. Greater, by powers of 100, than I could ever have guessed. I recommend, wholeheartedly, to anyone, the experience of [...]

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Announcement from Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary

January 13, 2009

A PELICAN AT THE SUNCOAST SEABIRD SANCTUARY Back in May, I posted an article and photos about the Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary. They just sent me a request for a public service announcement which I’m delighted to publish. Here’s their message: The Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary is the largest nonprofit, wild bird hospital and sanctuary in [...]

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Update complete

December 29, 2008

click here to see image on Flickr the first hibiscus I ever grew The update is complete. I’m amazed. There were absolutely no problems…that I know of. Please, everyone, look around the site, and if you find something that doesn’t work, just let me know via a comment or an email. You’ll notice a couple [...]

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Happy New Year Software Upgrade

December 28, 2008

click here to see image on Flickr MR. EGGPLANT SAYS HAPPY NEW YEAR! (I found Mr. Eggplant at the Gulfport Tuesday Morning Market.) Beginning Monday, December 29th, Inkwatu will be undergoing a major technical revamping: the installation of completely new blogging software. The address (http://inkwatu.com) will remain exactly the same. This transition won’t affect the [...]

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Francis House

November 29, 2008

Medical specialists, clergy, lawyers, morticians, and musicians are a particular group. (No, this is not one of those what-doesn’t-belong-in-this-list things, nor is that a list in descending order of social desirability, although some might think so.) These are professionals often involved in other people’s life transitions: births, blessings, weddings, funerals, etc. Because of that, [...]

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Music!

August 31, 2008

The Inkwatu Store Store is a subpage of my professional website, hiltonkeanjones.com. In the “real” world, I’m a musician. There are MP3s of some of my music available through Amazon.com as well as physical CDs, also available through Amazon. If you click on the Store link, you’ll find links to the proper Amazon.com pages. It [...]

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