Jessica Porvasnik Earns LPGA Tour Card for 2025 Season
While most dream about making that winning stroke to win a golf championship, few will ever have the opportunity. To put things into perspective only 1 out of 51,436 golfers reach the professional tours. Earlier this month, Jessica Porvasnik secured her playing status for 2025 on the LPGA Tour. Jessica is the granddaughter of Ray […]
Reader’s Corner
From the award-winning author and journalist Stephen P. Kiernan comes The Glass Chateau, an uplifting story of hope, healing, and redemption set in post-World War II France. After exuberant parades and celebrations end, the French people realize how much work will be needed to restore their country from the destruction brought by the endless years […]
Grandezza Girl Friends
For the final reciprocal of the summer, the Girl Friends lunched at The Colony where they celebrated the birthdays of Joyce Buchanan and Jill Burnside. The Girl Friend’s bracelet was presented to Debra McAlister-Brown.The Rounders group continues to stay busy. Their latest adventure, arranged by Michelle Wright, was sailing around the Fort Myers area on […]
Meet the Resident: Sharmin Fairbanks McKenny
Grandézza has myriad residents with fascinating backgrounds and lives prior to their locating to our community. Sharmin Fairbanks McKenny was born and raised on a traditional family farm in a small town in Northwest Missouri. Like her predecessors who were early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early 1630s, she lived history on […]
Energy Check
Not long ago, I came across this sign posted at the entrance of Indiana University Health. I smiled as I thought how brilliant it was to ask people to pause and reflect momentarily on the energy they were carrying and shift it before entering, if necessary. A center of health is certainly a place where […]
Some Perspectives of Halloween
Many of us Grandezza residents recollect Halloween of years past as one of our favorite holidays of the year. Celebrated annually on October 31st, Halloween has its roots in ancient Celtic traditions although today it has evolved into a fun-filled, family-friendly occasion where creativity, community, and spookiness come together. From trick-or-treating for candy to elaborate […]