Daily Connector | Sarasota Sage Returns | Michele Dicke
Joe Newman was back in our news again. (I hope you recall this gentleman I introduced you to last spring who, at age 107, drove a cherry red Mercedes convertible he purchased from his dentist.) Celebrating his 108th birthday January 13, he was tracked down by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune staff…
Daily Connector | Discovering My Polish Roots: DNA Relatives and the Genealogy Puzzle | Larry Less
A brief recap from three blogs that I posted in October. My Polish history has been shrouded in mystery. Many years ago, I was told that my Grandfather had only one brother and that they both immigrated to America around 1905, I was not able to identify his brother. Then…
Daily Connector | How is winter going? | Dan Halterman
Grey Many more grey-sky days than sunny. At least fifty shades. Peter Yoder disdains a blue sky in his paintings. I look at the sky regularly, day and night, and enjoy cloud-gazing, thunder-storm roiling bulges, and sunsets that distribute unpaintable variations. A good sunset, often delightfully enhanced by air pollutants,…
Walking while White
Due to the frequency of Zoom, I’ve been opting for phone calls for one on one conversations. I often throw on my coat and go for a walk while talking, a nice change from sedentary computer-ing. We’re fortunate to live by a public walking path in the woods, right behind…
Daily Connector | How COVID has impacted my life | Jim Fath
We all have stories to tell about how our lives have changed as a result of this pandemic. Some of you have asked, so I will tell of my particular journey. Mine starts with maybe having contracted the illness in late March–who knows how and when it will end. Soon…