Entries by LifeInNaples

life in the facet lane gives us Jazzed Up Time

Fine timepieces are more than a utilitarian device that keep us on schedule with our daily activities. They are wonders of mechanical achievement and vehicles for personal expression. What Price Prestige? Some timepieces convey one’s limitless resources to spend up a storm. Take Monte Carlo-based Graff jewelers for instance. They created a multicolored diamond bracelet-style lady’s watch “Graff  Hallucination.”  Company president Laurence Graff ’s commented on […]

Art’s Role in Child Development ask the artsperts

Dear Artsperts: My daughter and son-in-law have three under three and they are wonderful parents. They play classical music for our grandchildren and take them to play groups, but I’m wondering is art important in child development? What would be the benefit of exposing children to fine art and to teaching art to young children? Sincerely, Young at Art […]

Save Our Paradise Here’s What You Can Do by Eric Eikenberg

Besides providing fresh drinking water to over 8 million Floridians and tourists, America’s Everglades is home to 78 endangered or threatened species and has been designated a World Heritage Site, an International Biosphere Reserve and a Wetland of International Importance. Only 50% of the historic Everglades ecosystem exists today, and what’s left is on life support. Decades of flood control […]

Military Child Appreciation Month

Since 1986, as part of the legacy of former Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, April has been designated as the Month of the Military Child. This month underscores the important role our military children play in our armed forces family. Because purple is a color used to represent all military services, the theme “Purple Up” is used over the course of the month. […]

Harwick Homes Builds and Transforms Luxury Homes in Naples’ Most Exclusive Communities

Harwick Homes, a luxury custom homebuilder and full-service remodeling firm ranked #48 among North America’s top 100 firms by Remodeling magazine in 2019, has been building and remodeling homes of distinction in Southwest Florida for more than 30 years. The company continues to expand its dedicated presence incNaples’ most highly regarded communities, including Grey Oaks […]

The Electoral College…a bedrock of Federalism

There is one thing both Democrats and Republicans share in common – the oath we swore to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and to protect and defend our Republic. To abolish or alter the Electoral College would fundamentally transform and undermine the Federalism upon which our Republic was founded. Fear of monarchical, highly centralized and all-encompassing European governments drove the […]

LUMINARIES…profiles of Women in Academic Medicine

In April 2020, Dr. Jaclyn Kovach a retina specialist and Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Naples will release her very first book. Luminaries: Profiles of Women in Academic Medicine is a compilation of twenty-four mini-autobiographies written by female academic physicians, researchers, and educators  at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (UMMSM). Congresswoman Donna E. Shalala, past President […]

Mayor Bill with the Mayor’s Corner

As is my custom today is March 15, 2020. Although I have been at the helm during Hurricanes Wilma, Charlie, and Irma, I can honestly say I’ve never witnessed what we have going on around the world and in Naples, Florida AKA Coronavirus COVID-19. Never mind that we are in the middle of a banner season in Naples, beautiful weather, […]