HAPPINESS

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The Happiness Index finds that happiness continues to fall for Americans.
The happiness industry doesn't appear to help produce long-term happiness, including those who profit from it.
Quality time with others, sharing a meal, or giving back to the community pays happiness dividends.
Spending time with the people you care about and engaging in the activities you enjoy.

MY TOCAYO

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Tocayo means namesake, a person with the same name as oneself. However, truth be told, I was named after Bob Feller, another baseball great.

ZEPPELIN JAZZ

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If you’ve ever visited New Orleans, you’ve felt the possibility in the air. It truly is a place where anything can happen—like Robert Plant wandering into a jazz club and surprising the crowd with one of Led Zeppelin’s most timeless hits.

WILD WORD

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How did this character develop? Was it created as a challenge? An April Fools' joke? Or does it have a deeper meaning?

MI AMI

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Miami is where I earned my first advanced university degree, where I got married the first time, where my daughters were born, where I purchased our first home, and where I got my first job offer as a professional broadcaster.

GOOD BYE GLORIA

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I met Gloria on the 6 Subway, when I arrived in NY decades ago to build News 12 The Bronx, and then launch AP Television in N. America.

She was watching me as I gave my seat to a Nun from Mother Theresa’s Convent in The Bronx. She moved closer, thanked and asked where I was from. I said it was the way I was brought up in Cuba. Following a short conversation, she said she was also a Cuban.

DNA CANCER THERAPY

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Professor Björn Högberg and his team at the Karolinska Institutet developed an innovative technology that utilizes a DNA-based nanostructure to shield the weapon until it reaches the tumor microenvironment. DNA-based cancer treatments aim to target and manipulate the genetic alterations that drive cancer growth.

COOLNESS

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Coolness must be bestowwd and never claimed. Initially a descriptor of temperature, cool transitioned from referring to the environment to becoming a term for mental composure and rationality. Being cool is difficult. Staying cool is much harder. It’s an elusive quality, in part because it’s a word with layers of nuanced meaning that peel off as we travel through centuries.

THE JAZZ VOICE

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Experience Jazz live and in-person at the WDNA JAZZ GALLERY – where music lives and breathes. It’s an intimate listening and performance space near the historic Miracle Mile. Broadcasting Jazz, night and day SOUTH FLORIDA'S ONLY SOURCE FOR PRIME TIME JAZZ. Public Media Production and Distribution Center. Public Media Redefined.

LITTLE ITALY

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My grandmother was of Italian decent - Fuhgeddaboudit, or “forget about it," is a stereotypical phrase from New York City. Here are other local Little Italy phrases. (Adult)
The following article overlooked Arthur Avenue, The Bronx, often called "The Real Little Italy," which is a vibrant street known for its traditional Italian-American food, shops, and businesses, offering a taste of old-world Italy within the city. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hCDv1pHWPe0&pp=ygUORnVoZ2VkZGFib3VkaXQ%3D