Community Archives - Doug Dillon

Creating a SAFE Family COVID Bubble Plan

November 20, 2020 by Doug Dillon 5680 1 0

When COVID hit last March, my wife, Barbara and I, like a lot of older people with health conditions, pretty much isolated ourselves in our home here in Central Florida. That isolation included separating from our daughter, her husband, and our...

Black Lives Matter: St. Augustine, Florida 1906 Onward

August 21, 2020 by Doug Dillon 2954 0 0

The wonderful picture above was taken in the depth of the Jim Crow era. The date, sometime in 1906 and the location was the historic city of St. Augustine, Florida. And yet, somehow, despite living under the crushing legal and cultural racism of...

DeSantis Endangers Florida Population and Beyond

July 10, 2020 by Doug Dillon 2794 0 0

Incredibly, our state governor refuses to protect the people he has sworn to serve and is willing to allow the spread of COVID-19 beyond our borders. Ron DeSantis endangers Florida and is making it the primary hot-spot for the virus in the United...

End Entrenched Racist Policing in the U.S. Now!

June 2, 2020 by Doug Dillon 2560 0 0

Racist policing, whether it emanates from a cop on the beat, a police chief, a police union official, an FBI agent or the President of the United States, must be torn from our society by its festering roots, now. The horrible, unforgivable death...

COVID Virus Inspiration Courtesy of the Earth

May 19, 2020 by Doug Dillon 2087 0 0

During this most difficult time of the Coronavirus pandemic, I have been keeping myself busy by teaching my 5-year-old granddaughter about geography on my iPhone via FaceTime. She and her parents only live 15 miles away but, we haven’t been able...

Notre Dame Fire and Destruction

April 18, 2019 by Doug Dillon 2165 0 0

By now, everyone in the world who has a television, computer or cell phone has seen pictures of the Notre Dame fire. This tragic loss is not only French or that of the Catholic Church. It is a body blow to the cultural and spiritual...

Mr. Rogers Movie: Remedy for Troubled Times

July 25, 2018 by Doug Dillon 2431 0 0

As my wife, Barbara, and I exited the Enzian Theater in Winter Park, Florida, we both breathed a deep sigh of nostalgia, peace and even hope. We had just viewed the Mr. Rogers movie, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Growing up, our children loved...

Shame: Rubio Fails Children of Asylum Seekers

July 2, 2018 by Doug Dillon 1569 0 0

Marco Rubio fails children of asylum seekers every day that goes by since his June 22, 2018 speech. Although Florida’s junior Senator’s words that day were mostly logical and reasonable, near the end, he stepped off a cliff and plummeted into...

Quotes About Children

March 17, 2018 by Doug Dillon 2321 0 0

Kids: Understanding. Loving. Nurturing. Learning from. What you will see in this post is a blending of my own observations about children, from the perspective of a father, grandfather and educator, with thoughts about kids from famous people...

Bear Visit in the Orlando Area

December 26, 2017 by Doug Dillon 2696 0 0

Central Florida, Seminole County, Altamonte Springs, Longwood, Markham Woods, Little Wekiva River Yup, there are black bears around here. Of course, this was their territory long before we humans decided to invade. It seems, though, that the more...

Indivisible Central Florida

August 26, 2017 by Doug Dillon 1580 0 0

Metro Orlando’s best Trump Resistance Organization. # resist movement, group, guide, organization. Had enough of Donald Trump’s horrible, destructive shenanigans? Want to connect with other like-minded people and make a difference for...

Freedom’s Shield Against Trump: ACLU

February 11, 2017 by Doug Dillon 1157 0 0

The American Civil Liberties Union: Resisting Trump’s headlong race towards destroying our democracy. You know, I rarely post anything to my blog relating to politics. As a writer of books and a 30-year career educator, I have deliberately...