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 [...]
The humbled guide
As sure as April showers bring May flowers, spend enough time traveling in Europe and someone’s going to pick your [...]
Ah, Paris, so typical
The first time my travel companion had French fries in Paris, she looked at me wide-eyed and exclaimed, “These are [...]
Bob Dylan wants a drink
The following is a "Crouch End Fantasy" based on a true story as told to me by the bartender at [...]
Once atop the Pompidou
We met Kevin and his partner Scott in the vast public plaza outside the Centre Pompidou. It was a crisp [...]