When you are isolated, you do not have an idea of what's going on in the world. This can be bad for your health.

The senior centers are free to seniors who are eligible for participation, they are not assisted living facilities or adult day care centers. Our seniors are active ? they really are the young seniors.

In the old days the people at the senior centers were white American women, usually 75 years old or older, who played Bingo or participated in parties. Now they are newly retired seniors who are either pursuing a second career and staying up in their computer skills, taking a second language or there to meet others.

We're not isolated when it comes to that. What's disturbing with a little more of these cases recently is that they're right here in our area.

While we are not and cannot become the world's policeman, neither can we become a prisoner of world events, isolated and tucked safely away in a continental cocoon.

not isolated or inadvertent.