Kudos to the deputy sheriff who bothered to stop on U.S. 98 to move a turtle from the road, to the safety of the roadside. His is another good example of an act of kindness. ...more

May 31, 2009

Money will not solve our lack of educational excellence. ...more

August 29, 2008

Thinking 'out loud until it started to hurt... Chinese 'officials announced that dog meat, a local favorite, will be removed from menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants during the Summer Games, and Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from Fido. I wonder if that also includes no Great Danish for breakfast. ...more

July 12, 2008

Most afternoons, just before dinner, the residents of Weinberg Village do something often associated with people a fraction of their age. ...more

June 3, 2008

Spirit Of Christmas Lives On Monday evening, after enjoying a thoroughly entertaining Las Vegas-type variety show by Tony Orlando & Company (including the real Santa Claus) at the Show Palace Dinner Theater in Hudson, I met Betty Batzlaff from Zephyrhills. She was a very pretty lady, attractively dressed, with a delightfully charming personality who lit up the room with her smile and her eyes. I noticed she was almost the last person to leave the theater and offered my assistance with getting up and out of her chair. She graciously accepted and informed me that she was waiting patiently with the hope to meet Tony Orlando. She wanted to tell him all of the happiness he had brought into her life throughout the years with his music and variety shows; and, yes, she had seen his show in Las Vegas years before. ...more

December 30, 2007

SEBRING — Sebring High School students James Heidle and Kary Wininger roll up small pieces of cookie dough Monday for placing on cookie sheets. ...more

December 18, 2007

Years ago, late on a Sunday afternoon, I found myself sitting in my favorite cafe in the North End of Boston, calculating whether to buy another cappuccino or save the few dollars I had left in my pocket to buy subway tokens for getting back and forth to work that week. Post-college, I was broke, as usual, and relying on cigarettes and coffee to keep the stomach from rumbling too much. ...more

November 21, 2007

Thanks goes to Victor and Beverly Bondonna of Sebring, for without them none of this would be possible Beverly received a call from me months ago out of the blue and accepted my request without hesitation, a selfless act of kindness and love that we are sincerely grateful for. I have no other way to repay her or her husband, but through this letter. What they have done for me and my family goes beyond words and thanks to their compassion and kindness. They helped make the impossible, possible and forever changed our lives. For this we will be forever and always sincerely grateful. They stepped up to the plate in our hour of desperation and gave my children and my granddaughter the greatest gift, the gift of a future, not monetarily or even materially, but an all encompassing future, for that we offer our heartfelt thanks and appreciation. ...more

November 16, 2007

The spirit of our community is the spirit of volunteerism. From the founding of this great nation to the present, volunteerism has helped make America what it is. ...more

September 30, 2007