Entries by LifeInNaples

David Lawrence Center Receives Grant to Provide Specialized Addiction Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women

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Collier County’s only comprehensive, not-for-profit mental health and addiction recovery treatment center serving children, adults and families, will host the 6th Annual Sound Minds™ Mental Health Symposiumon March 23, Women’s Foundation of Collier County (WFCC) has awarded a grant to David Lawrence Center to expand the not-for-profit’s addiction recovery program by offering additional specialized treatment […]

GOT PAIN? MOVE IT OUT!

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by Dr. Cynthia Vaccarino The most common reason a person seeks the help of healthcare professionals is for pain. We all want to enjoy life as comfortably as possible. Today, more than 100 million Americans live with pain. To treat pain, doctors can prescribe opioids, but now we’re seeing the unintended consequences. As you know, […]

Programs, Tours and Events in February at Rookery Bay Reserve

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ONGOING Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center Hosts Science Saturdays Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center welcomes the entire family on Science Saturdays, 9 am to 4 pm, through April. Kids and grown-ups alike can explore and discover the plants, fish and wildlife that call Rookery Bay Research Reserve’s 110,000 acres home. Science Saturdays are a fun […]

The Crown Jewel of SWFL

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The crown jewel of Southwest Florida attracted interest during the Florida land boom of the late 1880s. By 1887, Civil War General and U.S. Senator, John S. Williams, along with Walter N. Haldeman, publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal, formed the Naples Company. Their ambitious vision was based on development (at $10 per lot) and tourism […]

karen larson talks about Wellness and Interior Design

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by Karen Larson, Interior Designer Wellness is a comprehensive term incorporating many facets. The definition  according to the National Wellness Institute, is “an active process through which people become aware of, and make choices toward, a more successful existence.” With people spending on average 90% of their time indoors, leading professionals in medicine, science and the green building industry are developing new building standards, design concepts and material specifications in an effort to […]

Claudia Polzin on finding new Adventures

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Finding new adventures or old adventures in unexpected places is part of the fun of living in Naples. Begin the month with an opera in a church – Don Pasquale – presented by Gulfshore Opera in First United Methodist Church in Naples. Consider the plot of this opera – it’s mid -19th century and old bachelor Don Pasquale plans to marry in […]

Congressman Rooney and Offshore Drilling

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by Congressman Francis Rooney As the 116th Congress begins, the Florida delegation should unite to stop offshore drilling off the Gulf coast of Florida and must push Congress to enact legislation to make the moratorium on offshore  drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico (EGOM), eastward from the Military Mission Line (MML) at Long. 86 deg, 41 min., permanent. The MML was established by […]

Artificial Intelligence Boon or Bane?

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by Dave Trecker Computers will autonomously take your orders, prepare your food, deliver your purchases, run factories, operate trains, buses and merchant ships, and make millions of decisions with little or no human input. It’s barely a decade away. There’s no question artificial intelligence will change the way we live. But will it change it for the better? Some […]