Carl Wernicke
Carl Wernicke is a native of Pensacola. He graduated from the University of Florida in 1975 with a degree in journalism. After 33 years as a reporter and editor, he retired from the Pensacola News Journal in April 2012; he spent the last 15 years at the PNJ as editor of the editorial page. He joined the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in 2012 as Senior Writer and Communications Manager, and retired from IHMC in 2015.
His hobbies include reading, traveling, gardening, hiking, enjoying nature around his home in Downtown Pensacola, as well as watching baseball and college football, especially the Florida Gators and New York Yankees. His wife, Patti, retired as a senior vice president at Gulf Winds Federal Credit Union and is a Master Gardener.
Carl is a regular contributor to WUWF. His commentaries focus on life in and around the Pensacola area and range in subject matter from birding to downtown redevelopment and from preserving our natural heritage to life in local neighborhoods.
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One of the casualties of our evolving lives is that new things often take time from old things. Between traveling in our RV and other events, this year my… -
I should apologize to WUWF listeners for the inconstancy of these commentaries. It’s an insufficient excuse, but like most of us my life has been in…
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I still remember standing at Casino Beach in the late spring of 2010 as the ugly sheets of oil washed ashore from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It… -
Like many people with extra time on their hands, I’ve been reading a lot. That includes rereading favorite books, helped by my lousy memory. I can reread… -
The pandemic has changed the way we do a lot of things, including how we communicate with each other. Even though we're all working to practice social… -
Years from now, when society looks back at everything that has happened in the year 2020, it will have to rely in large part on what is written about the… -
The corona virus has changed the way we do just about everything. How we shop, or don't, how we socialize and even how we see other people. Just the same,… -
As we continue to adjust to the new normal of living with the corona virus, we're all finding new ways to get done the things we need to get done. But…
