Before going through security at the Cyril E. King Airport in St. Thomas, we had inadvertently put a bottle of bourbon, a gift for a friend, in my backpack. “No liquids!” barked one of the security people, while removing the bottle. “The hell with it,” I said to Tina, “let’s just leave it.” […]

Well, what a week it has been. We have seen declarations, proclamations, pronouncements and curfews. We have seen scary stories and uplifting tales. Warnings and pleas. All getting our attention. As the area settles into what could be a rather prolonged period of change and all of us are faced with scenarios that few planned […]

We have all seen or heard about it – the empty shelves where toilet paper, flour, rice and canned vegetables once were. We might have shrugged – “What does toilet paper have to do with a pandemic?!” — maybe rolled our eyes, perhaps nervously laughed because we had just returned home from our fourth trip […]