Junior Summer Tennis Camp
Summer at Heritage Palms means one thing—Junior Summer Tennis Camp! This year we hosted camp for eight exciting weeks, with four weeks in June and four weeks in July. Camp was held on Monday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and welcomed children ages 5 to 14. Each day began with tennis instruction […]
September 11: A Day of Remembrance
The nation changed forever on September 11, 2001. Many Americans remember a country before and a country after, and for many young Americans, only a country after. Terrorist attacks causing tragic loss of life at the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in sight of the nation’s capital, and a quiet field […]
Postcards
From Dan Barden, US Army – 586th Engineers: The Honor Flight Network flies World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War Veterans from 125 hubs to Washington, D.C. to visit their war memorials at no cost to the Veterans. According to their website, the total number of Veterans flown to DC since 2005 is 300,000! […]
Five Famous Foods Invented by Accident
The culinary world is full of happy mistakes. Whether thanks to unusual weather or broken machinery, some foods that are now commonplace were invented by complete chance. Snack on these five facts about tasty accidental treats. Chocolate Chip Cookies As the co-proprietor of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, MA, Ruth Graves Wakefield was known […]
Is It Your Glasses, or Is It Something Else?
It’s a familiar routine. Your vision gets a little blurry, so you update your glasses prescription. Then a few months later you’re struggling again — and the glasses you just paid for don’t seem to be doing much at all. That cycle is one of the earliest signs of cataracts, and it’s one of the […]
From The Pro Shop
Hello from the Golf Shop. Summer is winding down, and hopefully we can finish the season without any major storms. September marks the peak of the hurricane season so we are not out of the woods yet. So far, it has been a drier-than-normal summer, very similar to last year. Reciprocal play continues to be […]
Group “Culture” May Determine Group Behavior More than Written Rules
Because the HP community is much larger in scope than golf and racquet sports, I thought it might be instructive to expand the focus of this article to groups in general, i.e. committees, special interest groups, and work groups. A significant element of a group (or organization) is its culture. Many of us use the […]
Why Are People Never Smiling in Old Photographs?
First developed in the late 1820s, photography combined art and science into one medium capable of capturing an image in the moment. The innovation transformed recorded history into something that could be documented in pictures as well as text. As the technology advanced, the medium exploded in popularity, making it possible for families to create […]
Is It Your Glasses, or Is It Something Else?
It’s a familiar routine. Your vision gets a little blurry, so you update your glasses prescription. Then a few months later you’re struggling again — and the glasses you just paid for don’t seem to be doing much at all. That cycle is one of the earliest signs of cataracts, and it’s one of the […]
What Sleep, Your Heart, and GLP-1 Medications All Have to Do with Your Brain
EXPERT COLUMN Every night, while you sleep, your brain does something remarkable. It cleans itself. A network of fluid pathways — called the glymphatic system — flushes out metabolic waste products that accumulate during the day, including proteins linked to brain disease — the same harmful proteins most strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease. When that […]