​By DAVID KLEMENT

As I sat in the drive-up line at my local Outback Steakhouse for curbside delivery of our Easter dinner –Alice Springs Chicken, of course, my all-time favorite – I reached for my wallet and took out a $10 bill. Even though I knew my wife had put a 20 percent tip onto her credit-card order, I wanted to do something more for the harried server going car to car checking on orders and handing out bags of meals. A sudden swell of emotion passed through me as I handed him the $10 bill and said, “Thank you for being here for us.”  READ MORE

By DAVID KLEMENT
Going through a pile of unread magazines the other day while dutifully fulfilling the mandate that the Covid-19 quarantine is the time to declutter, I came across the February edition of one of Sarasota’s glossy magazines. Surprised that I had overlooked it when it arrived in late January, I leafed through it to see what I might have missed.

What followed was a jolting account of just how much I – we, all of us – have missed in less than two months since that magazine came out.   READ MORE