from husband Bill
Today (April 18, 2026) is National Columnists' Day.(I was a journalist from September 1982 to April 2017.)
My religion is called Gaudiya Vaishnavism, also known as Hare Krishna, which is a sect of Sanatana Dharma, also known as Hinduism. I wrote this column (below) in 2014 about my religion. It was published in almost all of the 24 southeastern Florida weekly newspapers in the chain for which I was working at the time (Forum Publishing Group, Sun Sentinel, Tribune Company).
My column was part of a series of columns written by the editors about living in today's world according to our religious tenets. It was published in our April 16, 2014, editions. At the time, I was one of two Assistant Editors (editor and page designer, and sometimes writer and photographer) for five of our weekly newspapers.
Click/tap on the (scanned) photo below to enlarge it. Also, I did an imitation of my father (1934-1997) in my column photo as an homage to my dad. He often had that smirk on this face.
Also, I wrote a weekly opinion column during my first paying journalism job (1989-1990), when I was the founding editor of the first of three community weekly supplements to a daily newspaper (as a reporter, writer, editor, photographer, and page designer) at the Newburgh Evening News in Newburgh, New York.
from husband Bill
Today (April 18, 2026) is National Animal Crackers Day. I don't particularly like them, but the larger frosted versions are OK. I prefer the former, traditional box design when the circus animals were still in cages (below). In a later version of the box, the animals were let loose due to a politically correct issue.
from husband Bill, April 18, 2026
