Spring break has hit Florida. How about we treat the kids to a vaccine-protocol time?
Tuesday Travel: Florida Spring Break Might Take A Page From Vaccine Protocol
National Voter Registration Day!
If we ever had an election where it counted, it’s this one. It’s our Democratic responsibility.
It’s Always Time to Celebrate the New Year
Last year at this time, I had finally returned home after a three-month hospitalization in Amsterdam’s OLVG Hospital following a ruptured aneurysm. My diagnosis was Segmental Arterial Mediolysis (SAM), a disease that weakens the walls of the abdominal arteries. My belly had been a mess of aneurysms when I was in the Amsterdam ICU. There…
Why We Must Support the US Postal Service
When my father was stationed at the American Embassy in Rome, our family mail came to us via the Army Post Office (APO), which routes US Postal Office mail to military bases and diplomatic missions around the globe. [A note here: the Defense Department says that the APO mail service is available to only US…
Editorial Cartoons Say it Best
These days, the editorial cartoons in The Palm Beach Post express the nation’s exasperation and exhaustion better than ever.
Dog Adoptions Soften Pandemic Isolation
Pets reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.
Civic Duty
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 President Kennedy’s words nearly 60 years ago inspired a generation of Americans, who themselves were standing on the shoulders of the Greatest Generation, who came of age during the Great Depression…
Doing the Right Thing
The governor of my state of Florida, Ron DeSantis, is “counting on people to do the right thing” about social distancing and wearing masks to reduce the transmission of the coronavirus. In the next breath, he shrugs off the young crowds at the bars, saying “people are going to do what they’re going to do.”…
Flying Blind Into the Storm
I am spitting mad that the people making decisions for Americans — in the government, who we have elected to help us live our lives — are opening the doors to the resumption of economic activity without knowing — through widespread community testing and contact tracing, none of which are even discussed — what we…
We Are All Masked Humans
Masks may become as chic in America as they are in the Far East.