During these sad pandemic days, Americans are reading and watching more news, though their long-standing opinion of newspapers and TV news has not changed. According to the latest Gallup poll, 36 percent are favorably disposed toward the media while 48 percent are not.What continues to drive ...
Though she was a homemaker, the late, great Rose Brady of Connellsville was no homebody. “Social distancing” was not her thing.Not when the mother of seven joined the nurse volunteer program at what in those days was Connellsville State Hospital. Not when she became a leader in Red Cross ...
 Everything has changed.Life as we knew it - even last week - doesn’t exist.The rapidly growing scourge of coronavirus has reshaped our lives more quickly than anything in our nation’s history.Life will go on. But at a cost paid by everybody, everywhere.We would have never thought that ...
In my 20s, I received a preliminary diagnosis of diabetes. The doctor said it would take several days for test results to show for sure or not. I should go home, he said. Take it easy, he said. Don’t worry, he said.Instead of taking the doctor’s advise, I fretted. Boy, did I fret. Diabetes ...
As I write this (on Thursday, March 12th at 10:19 AM) the number of people around the world who’ve been diagnosed with coronavirus stands at 129,590.That’s certain to change by the time I finish writing this.One thing is for sure, the United States of America hasn’t been prepared for ...
Those of you old enough may remember how the American war in Vietnam was summed up in the statement, “We had to destroy the town in order to save it.”In the case of coronavirus, the effort to limit its impact may be summarized this way: “We must isolate the individual in order to spare ...