Trump Organization Indictments Echo Leona Helmsley Case
by Barbara Nevins Taylor In the 1980s Leona Helmsley styled herself as the queen of New York real estate. She posed for ads for the Helmsley hotels wearing an evening dress and sometimes a tiara on...
View ArticleExploring Chincoteague and Assateague
by Barbara Nevins Taylor I had a big birthday in July and wanted to do something special. Nick and I thought we might go to Mallorca to study Spanish, enjoy the water, sail, and explore the island’s...
View ArticleConfusion About COVID Booster
by Barbara Nevins Taylor I received the Moderna COVID booster shot at a CVS Pharmacy on Friday afternoon, September 3, 2021. Great. I was a little dizzy but I waited a bit and felt fine....
View Article9/11 Deep Inside Me
by Barbara Nevins Taylor 9/11 lives deep inside me in a way that I never imagined. Twenty years ago all I thought about was getting to the scene, to the story. I first felt something was wrong when...
View ArticleHealing Hike Through El Yunque Rain Forest
by Nick Taylor We hadn’t traveled since the beginning of the COVID pandemic nearly two years ago. The months of lockdown and isolation took a toll, some physical, some mental. It was greater than...
View ArticleDown to the Wire for Medicare Changes
by Barbara Nevins Taylor Joe Namath was a great football player and George Foreman a great boxer. Their athletic prowess doesn’t necessarily make them experts on Medicare, yet you can feel the...
View ArticleCOVID Tests Slow and Sometimes Hard To Get
by Barbara Nevins Taylor Bigelow pharmacy in Greenwich Village thought it was ready. Customers snapped up the first batch of at-home COVID-19 tests in early December. So the pharmacy reordered. But...
View ArticleHow My Penis and I Survived Prostate Surgery
by Nick Taylor My prostate surgery was still three weeks away. I tried to keep things steady and in perspective during those three weeks. I wanted to maintain my physical life while I still could. I...
View ArticleSummer Travel Videos
When COVID makes us skittish, it’s nice to remember the places that we’d like to visit again. These summer travel videos tell short stories about people and places you might want to visit. You may...
View ArticleElegy for Mom’s Piano
by Nick Taylor The movers finally came for Mom’s piano. Not movers, in this case. More like morticians we called to put the old piano down. It was with me a long time. It’s there in one of the...
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