by Morning Reflections | Oct 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
On a summer day in 1986, Lauren Schroff walked up to the intersection of 56th and Broadway in midtown Manhattan.She was a single, 35-year-old marketing exec who was helping fuel USA Today’s meteoric rise to “the nation’s newspaper.”As she prepared to cross the street...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
After 18 months of saturation news coverage of the pandemic, the televised images have become predictable.We see COVID patients lying in ICU beds. Exhausted nurses. Vials of vaccine rolling off pharmaceutical assembly lines. Running tallies of the...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s one of the strangest ways to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice.Every fall, members of Britain’s Royal Air Force ritualistically burn an upright wooden piano. “Piano fires” commemorate the RAF pilots (along with pilots who came from other Allied...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you watched TV sports during the 1980s, you’ll probably remember the Rainbow Man. Rollen Stewart dreamed of becoming an actor. When his Hollywood career flatlined, he decided the ultimate act of self-promotion would be to show up on camera during major...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
Several years ago hundreds of physicians and researchers gathered for the convention of the American Heart Association in Atlanta.They were meeting to discuss, among other things, the importance of a low-fat diet for cardiac health. Observers pointed out,...
