12.20.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: A new kind of Christmas It’s hard to believe that Christmas is upon us and then New Year’s. We’ve been locked down since mid-March and the future still looks grim. The Christmas season has...
12.14.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Learning — or not —from mistakes It was “deja vu” all over again, as they say. Redundancy jokes aside, last Sunday I felt as though I was repeating the past, and not in a good...
12.08.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Christmas brings hope to beat COVID From what I’ve seen, people are more ready than ever to get into the Christmas spirit as 2020 wanes. And I am one of them. I never started putting...
12.04.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Taking care and making plans A topic that has come to my attention recently is the daily worries that we seniors have. Those concerns that slowly eat way at the quality of life that...
11.27.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Getting and staying connected I was treated to a great Thanksgiving dinner last Friday at the Senior Center. Giovanna Ketcham, assisted by Donna King, put together roast turkey, green beans, cranberry sauce and...