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Please Be Respectful, Wear A Facemask During Pandemic

By Denny Bonavita People who defiantly choose to not wear facemasks during this COVID pandemic reignite my rant. I love to rant. My rant is about my rights vs. your rights. My rant most recently bloomed when we went through the debate that prompted the repeal or relaxation of then-active laws requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets. The issue is cogently encapsulated in the cliche, “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins. Or perhaps the cliche is, “The right to swing my arms in any direction ends where your nose begins.” Or it could be, “My ...

Has Sleep Ever Interfered With Job Performance?

Last session we met Maxwell, a P.A. whose boss referred him for counseling. Little was pointedly discussed about a patient complaint about Maxwell. He had fallen asleep while attending to a patient in an examination room. The patient left upset and later complained to the PCP. Here reluctantly, Max began to ease into a discussion about his workday and weekend schedule demands. An early riser, by 5 a.m. he was gathering eggs from his chickens and milking two dairy cows. He would shower, eat breakfast and off to work he goes. By 8 a.m. patients filled his exam room until 5 p.m. Some E.R. ...

Please, Stand With Steven Baca

If you support the Second Amendment, oppose mob anarchy and reject the monumental madness gripping America, then you stand with Steven Baca. If you have been outraged by the persecution and prosecution of brave patriots across the country defending their homes, their families, our downtowns, our national heritage and history — like the armed St. Louis couple, or the armed pregnant Michigan mom, or the armed citizens in the Fishtown suburb of Philadelphia, Boise, Idaho, and Provo, Utah, facing down the saboteurs of civil order, then you stand with Steven Baca. On June 15, Steven and ...

Many Disagree With Global Warming Consensus

There has been a general tendency toward melting glaciers over the last few decades, presumably an unprecedented event in the history of the world, and presumably inextricably linked to human industrial activity of the last few centuries. As some of those glaciers melt, however, they are giving clues to historical precedents for warmer temperatures in the past, long before human industrialization or even rapid population growth. Otzi the iceman, a famous find of human remains dated from 3,300 BC, was so well preserved that scientists were able to determine what his last meal was, and ...

Things Are Getting Better In Chautauqua

A childhood friend owns a gift shop and up until last week she has been opening her door for limited hours only. My heart breaks for her whenever I drive by. All the pretty things in the windows look like orphans in a dark house. We’re not buying candles and gifts for friends. We’re having pancake mix and face masks delivered by Amazon. But things are getting better out there in the land of Chautauqua. There are boats on the water and chicken wings flying out the door and there are families catching minnows in the creeks and restaurants putting their specials to chalkboard for ...

Old Maids And Popcorn, A Lifelong Lasting Love Affair

Desperate to flee the encroaching violence of the Bay Area (two murders at local businesses we regularly frequented within a couple blocks of home: our liquor store and a good steak restaurant that had pancakes for the kids), we packed up and moved to my hometown of Warren. My father, a long-time widower, was gracious to open his home to my family but five, including three active youngsters two and up, had to wear after not too much time. We eagerly snatched the first house for sale that met our requirements: basically empty, large enough and available. I know it was priced in the ...