
Miracles on hold
Sitting in a hotel room in Orlando, Florida on a Saturday afternoon in November, I find myself at the very [...]

Chasing the Northern Lights
We'd talked many times about seeing the Northern Lights together. But we'd had a few spats of late — it [...]

To the house Dalí built
Two and a half hours north of Barcelona, along the rugged Costa Brava, is an exquisite jewel of a fishing [...]

The road to Andorra
The tiny principality of Andorra inadvertently wound up in the news over a recent controversy stirred up by President Donald [...]

Jeff’s COVID Mania Syndrome
Eight weeks. That’s how long my medical journey has lasted since my doctor first referred me to a mobile testing [...]

Kissed by sickness
Sidelined. Benched during the biggest story of my journalistic career. My last two weeks in Tallahassee, Florida I’ve been forced [...]

Love in the time of the coronavirus
Columnist Jeff Schweers is briefly furloughed from work and finds a trace of what he least expected.

COVID-19’s Florida “attack”
Things are happening so fast these days that I can only tell you about today, Friday, March 20, my first [...]

Honoring the dead
For such a beautiful and fertile region, Champagne has seen its share of bloodshed. Germans pushed the French and allies [...]

Behind closed doors
It had been three years since I last visited my great-uncle and his wife at their B&B in the Champagne [...]