If we’ve all learned anything from 2020, we are social beings who often don’t cope well with isolation, something so many of our older family members deal with even when there isn’t a pandemic. But the Naples Senior Center, dedicated to making sure our loved ones don’t feel alone as they age, has gotten the spot …
Our love language as a society has changed, now that touch is so rarely allowed. But Judy Zwicker and Priscilla Martin still know just how to send a message from the heart. The two women are part of the Naples Senior Center Knitting Club, a 20-person group that churns out shawls, blankets, bags and hats. …
I grew up in a small town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It was known as the U.P. to the locals. It had miles of untouched shoreline along lake Michigan. It boasted the best Coho salmon fishing in the state, the surface of the lake would explode with them during the spring time spawn. Much of the …
Note: This letter/memoir was published in The Naples Daily News. When I graduated from high school in January, 1947, World War Two had been over for two years. I had won first prize in a speech contest involving graduating senior students and presented my speech to the audience attending our graduation. The high school was located in …
If I were to paint a picture of the first 18 years of my life, your heart might break for that little girl who grew into a strong, courageous woman. Home was big, 200 years old, uninsulated and drafty. The outside of our home wore chipped and faded white paint. Behind the house rose a …
I am eighty eight years old and when I look back I realize what an exciting and privileged life I have had. It has had ups and downs. Still I am grateful. I was born in Hamadan, the oldest capital of Iran, which used to be called Persia. I had seven aunts and seven uncles. …
A baby born. The stars all smile. She grows in every delightful say. “Knight in Shining Armor” appears. They dance thru days and years all ablaze with warmth of love. Alleluia Alleluia Four baby boys soon come in their lives becoming the pride and joy of their parents. Before they leave home to be on …
It was the early 90’s in Ft Myers, Florida and I was in my 40’s and fairly new to the area. There was a singles group that met on Sunday night at a local church. I had been going there for a couple of months off and on to make some new friends. There was …
Many times I relate objects to something in my past. For instance, not buying a watermelon with seeds because as a child, I thought that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, I would have a baby. Smells, also can bring back memories. A gardenia bush with beautiful white blooms and instinctive smell, will instantly spark …
As Frank Sinatra once sang……. “Ya Gotta Have Heart” And, sometimes, Ya Gotta have heart…surgery. My time came last Fall when the mitral valve in my heart was failing. It came on rather suddenly (About 3 months) and shook up my family. More than me, even. The first group of Drs, were divided on how …
It must have been around 1957. We pulled into the white gravel driveway. The gate of the chain link fence was open, anticipating our arrival. I was very focused at such a young age, three, maybe three and a half. Even though, I was nervous, I took everything in. A big, white house with a …
He’s not that little. His first name isn’t Anthony. But with the wedding of both those titles to his razor-clean countertenor and a direct, intimate style, Jerome Gourdine has won fans over six decades as Little Anthony, flanked by his harmonic colleagues, the Imperials. At 79, he still sings with that clean precision, as Southwest Florida can find …