Our nation seems to be in a race between getting vaccines in as many of us as possible – the iconic “shots in arms” everyone is talking about – and the development of yet more insidious, infectious and potentially dangerous variants of the COVID-19 virus. For some of us, vaccines mean the end of the pandemic – and of our personal quarantine. They are pinpoints of light at the end of a long tunnel. But here’s the rub – for some, that’s not a pretty picture. I was reading an ar

Maybe you remember – as many do – those monster family affairs of grandparents, aunts, uncles and assorted others, generally held in some kind of park where the kids could run and the adults could chat, both to their heart’s content. Everyone ate too much and sometimes tempers sparked, but it was the being together that was important. Been a long time, hasn’t it? I had a reunion of a different sort recently with some people I haven’t seen in person in about 16 months. It was