Huh? What's Up With That?

ukraine one year later...                                           Dr. Bogdan Groboviy, his wife, Natalia, and their oldest child, Aleksey, 31, were all born in Ukraine.  The couple's two youngest children, Marianna, 16, and Patrick, 15, were born in America in Louisville, Kentucky.    Natalia, Aleksey, and Dr. Groboviy were refugees brought to the United States by a Catholic charity.    Dr. Graboviy was born in Lviv in Western Ukraine.  He is a dentist and practiced in Ukraine for five years before leaving his homeland in 1996.  As soon as he and his family arrived in the United States, Dr. Graboviy returned to school and upon completion of his studies, opened a dental practice in Louisville.    His extended family still resides in Ukraine.      It has been almost one year since we first sat down with Dr. Graboviy and disc...

a woman making history...                                                                              According to its website , Women in History Month, Had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress asked the president to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as Women's History Week .     Since  1995, U.S. presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as  Women’s History Month .       In the  past, a doctor, two barbers, and, an airline pilot, all females, who were making their own history, were featured in this space.       This year, we caught up with a structural engineer for UPS Airlines.  Jacqueline (Jaci) Sherman,...

  it's a new today...                       If I greet someone with the standard, Hey, What's new,  there is a good chance I would then have to listen to a litany of just exactly what is new .  On a cultural level, so much has changed since Covid-19, so, I no longer pose such an innocuous question.     The pandemic has been discussed in every imaginable format.  It's difficult to imagine any facet of the three-year scourge on humanity that hasn't undergone a close examination under the most stringent of tests...the court of public opinion.     HUH ?   What's up with that?   Last March, a post titled, It's Different... looked at some of the changes wrought by Covid.  Almost a year later, the innovations mentioned are still with us and have even expanded.    I asked several family members and a couple friends, all under 50 years of age, what changes they have noticed a...