A local friend called to ask if I would give a talk at a meeting of a national group of retirees. Having spoken around town a few times, I threw out some ideas of fun topics for her to pick from. "No," she said, "I want you to speak on caregiving." ...more

March 18, 2009

It's always great to see the stock market come back from the dead. But I am deeply worried that our political system doesn't grasp how much our financial crisis can still undermine everything we want to be as a country. ...more

March 13, 2009

A state panel has commuted the sentence of an 88-year-old retiree to time served for a series of drive-by shootings into the home of a neighbor who owed him money. ...more

March 12, 2009

Bob May, who donned The Robot's suit in the hit 1960s television show "Lost in Space," has died. He was 69. ...more

January 19, 2009

Everyone around her groans as Diana Manning pats her flat belly and announces she wants to lose another 5 pounds. ...more

January 14, 2009

Everyone around her groans as Diana Manning pats her flat belly and announces she wants to lose another five pounds. ...more

January 13, 2009

W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as "Deep Throat" 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president, has died. He was 95. ...more

December 19, 2008

SIESTA KEY - A simple act of paying respect to the flag and the men and women who served in uniform turned retired Navy Capt. Ralph Styles into something of a folk hero. ...more

October 9, 2008

Even now, Mary Lou Volbert, 65, can't get food off her mind. Knowing she can't eat with abandon, not as she did when she weighed 420 pounds, she transfers her obsession into recording every carbohydrate she consumes from food. Her tallies in a lined notebook are meticulous: ...more

August 17, 2008

The Flip Side - July 6 The Tampa Bay Rays' second three-game sweep of the world champion Boston Red Sox isn't being received well back in Beantown. All I know is Ted Danson has a new television sitcom called "Boos." ...more

July 5, 2008