Month: February 2021

This is the first time I have brought one of my dogs to the beach for the winter. Well, there was the case of Rucker, but that was short-lived after, as a young dog, he ate one of the palm trees. That was the exception. Since then I’ve left him in the care of the…

I cannot help myself from commenting on The Wall Street Journal again. I have been reading it faithfully every morning for almost a year now and sometimes can’t help feeling that it is part of the problem. Yes, I know this is a strong and gutsy thing to say about one of our most respected…

It is almost impossible to escape the crazy ongoing political news everyday. Unquestionably, we are all tired of hearing about the continuous turmoil brought on because of the election of Trump in 2016. Trump’s perfidy has seemingly managed to affect just about everything and threatens to corrupt the very foundations of our democracy. This week…

The most conspicuous absence on the island this winter is the Canadians. Every year we see lots of snowbirds from our northern neighbor in residence here. Their absence is part of the bad times brought on by the pandemic. Most, if not all, are stuck in their frozen environs due to the pandemic and government…

Perhaps if I was a Lakota Sioux, an ultra-fundamentalist Christian, or just compulsively superstitious, I might believe that the United States had done something awful to deserve the twin scourges of Covid-19 and Trumpism at the same time. Fortunately, I’m none of these, but I do wonder about our bad luck. Despite the recent success…