Daily Connector | Mentor and Mentee Trivia Night | Gretchen Geyer
The pandemic has certainly altered the ways that mentors and mentees are able to connect but those relationships continue to blossom. I’ve heard of, or participated in, many fun activities: game night, cooking lessons, crafting and more. Last Friday night was no exception. Nine mentor/mentee pairs came together for a…
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…