by Ted Shockley | May 19, 2025 | Opinion
Here’s an assignment: In your town or community, conduct an informal count of how many homes are vacant. We’re not referring to commercial units — only residential units. Don’t count the ramshackle homes that have gone to seed. Don’t count the homes you know are...
by Ted Shockley | May 12, 2025 | Opinion
Worries about the impacts of bird flu’s mutations To the editor: If you watched the “60 Minutes” episode on April 20 about bird flu, you heard scientists express grave concerns about our preparedness for this rapidly changing (mutating) disease. Although harm to us...
by Ted Shockley | May 12, 2025 | Opinion
Sunday is Mother’s Day, the annual celebration and observance of the role mothers have in our lives. We also should recognize that our collective culture, which sometimes can be retributive and insensitive, would do well to take some cues from our mothers, who love...
by Ted Shockley | Apr 4, 2025 | Opinion
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post As a child on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in the 1970s and 1980s, I knew who the local leaders were, even if I was too young to know what leadership actually was. The leaders didn’t tell me they were leaders, of course. In fact,...
by Ted Shockley | Apr 2, 2025 | Opinion
We miss too many opportunities on the Eastern Shore to name roads, buildings, parks, and more after the deserving, honorable people among us. Some governments and organizations see the poignant appropriateness of it. Some don’t. So when it happens, we should recognize...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 16, 2024 | Opinion
The book of Acts in the New Testament reveals that Jesus said it is more blessed to give than to receive. It is an often-repeated line and it is one the Eastern Shore of Virginia takes seriously — during Christmas and all year long. So much of the good in our...
