Blogs Bonzo

BONZ: How Blackberry, a hospice dog, became Bailey

Hi, pet buddies! Bailey Sunkel is the kind of pup who makes everybody – humans and pooches – ...

Blogs dining guide

DINING: Avanzare serves up innovative, delectable Italian dishes

Avanzare, our favorite Tuscan trattoria in Vero’s old downtown, continues night after night to produce some of the ...

Blogs social buzz

BUZZ: ‘Facebook Police’ has its place in news

In 2004 faceook wasn’t that big of a deal. If people found errors in newspapers they highlighted them, ...

Blogs My Vero

MY VERO: Local tennis coach and trainer fighting for life

It was shortly after 6 p.m. on April 1 when Francisco “Paco” Munoz finished teaching a Latin dance ...

Blogs On Faith

ON FAITH: Risk pain – You must open your heart to keep it alive

Did you know that each fully equipped human being comes with a reticular activating system as a standard ...

Blogs Bonzo

BONZ: Bonzo learns ins and outs of the dog-show biz

I had the coolest adventure last week. Heading home from an interview, I spotted a bunch of cars ...

Blogs dining guide

DINING: Manatee Island – Seafood, views on the Ft. Pierce inlet

Some years back, we used to occasionally visit the old Mangrove Matties – a casual waterfront restaurant just ...

Blogs My Vero

MY VERO: Vacation rentals: What’s honorable thing to do?

My usual approach when confronted with complicated issues – such as the short-term vacation rental controversy in our ...

Blogs On Faith

ON FAITH: Can faith seem just too good to be true?

Years ago Tom Long wrote an article in The Christian Century magazine about an experience a young father ...

Blogs Bonzo

BONZ: Bonzo yaps with ‘Fancy Pants’ Connelly

Hi pet buddies! This week I yapped with a breed of pooch I’d never met before – a ...

Blogs My Vero

MY VERO: Why does US drive off Canadian snowbirds?

A few weeks back, one of my seasonal tennis buddies – one of the thousands of Canadian snowbirds ...

Blogs On Faith

ON FAITH: Abundant love can build ‘a heaven in hell’s despair’

We read a story once about an anthropologist who spent months on a Hoppe Indian reservation in a ...