Archive For November 28, 2024
“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.” —W.J. Cameron A dozen years ago, for the ThanksGiving holiday, my wife and I drove to Osprey, a monied suburb south of Sarasota, to share an important holiday dinner with my mother. I was raised to believe this is how good people celebrate. Mom lived in a…
Whole-Person Care: You’re more than flesh and bone. That’s why we’re here to support all of you, from everyday wellness and preventive health care to lifesaving diagnostic services and innovative medical treatments in cancer, cardiac care, orthopedics and more. Just renewed our Medicare Advantage Humana Gold Plus, mostly because of one Physician’s Assistant. He alone…
When asking who means the most to us, we often find it is those who, instead of giving advice, choose rather to share our pain. The friend who is silent in a moment of despair, who stays with us in an hour of grief & bereavement, who faces with us the reality of our powerlessness,…
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. – Donald Trump 132 years ago today, the Allegheny Athletic Association defeated the Pittsburgh Athletic Club with the help of William “Pudge” Heffelfinger, the first person ever paid to play football. Heffelfinger, the son of…
“I thought I would run well tonight, because it was a flat course. But I thought the competition would be easier than it was.” – Bill Rodgers If you remember anything at all about the endurance athlete best known as Boston Billy Rodgers, you can well imagine he had a lot of energy and could…
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. – Malcolm X World always seemedupside down.Somethingbeen bothering himsince the fifth grade. The banker was a thief, the minister was a liar, the butcher didn’t like stray dogs. Town cop…
In 2020, 100 years after the massacre, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis proclaimed November 2 to be “Ocoee Massacre Remembrance Day.” Let us always remember to never forget. The Ocoee massacre was a white mob attack on African-American residents in northern Ocoee, Florida, which occurred on November 2, 1920, the day of the U.S. presidential election. The town is in Orange County near Orlando….