These days, you access an ATM at the grocery, the pharmacy, the gas station, the hardware store, the office, even the ballpark. You can check your Bank of America balance on your iPhone. You can text Chase, and Chase will text you back. ...more

February 22, 2009

Most of us in Sun City Center are retired, right? We should be taking it easy, right? At our age we should have learned to be courteous and kind to each other, right? Well, something's not working quite right. I've only been flipped a "splendid digit" twice in my life, and both times were in our town. Once was by a gentleman who didn't like it that I had to screech my brakes to avoid hitting him as he turned his golf cart left in front of me from the right lane. The other time was by, pardon the expression, a little old lady. ...more

November 12, 2008

It has been 25 days since the Rays and Red Sox last shared a baseball field, and the reverberations are still being felt. ...more

June 30, 2008

Reverberations from the Sunday sermon of a Roman Catholic priest who mocked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at Sen. Barack Obama's home church here continued to spread Friday, after the priest offered an apology and the archbishop of Chicago gave him a public reprimand for "partisan campaigning." ...more

May 31, 2008