12.30.2023 Around the Island 2023 Year In Review: Charity’s column — I, Robot This column appeared in February. The day has finally come. We now live in a world with computer programs that use artificial intelligence to write sonnets and screenplays, generate...
08.07.2023 Around the Island Charity’s Column: Parables of package delivery On Shelter Island, as in many rural towns, the United States Postal Service will deliver mail to an assigned box at your local post office, but not to your...
06.17.2023 News Work and family: This Father’s Day, Jose Hernández — as always — will count his blessings When Jose Hernández and his crew arrive to take care of your lawn and garden — mounted on mowers, wielding weedwackers and leaf-blowers — they are a landscaping SWAT...
06.14.2023 Columns Charity’s Column: Let the library be all it can be In the winter of 1999, my 7-year-old son had just learned to ride a two-wheeler along a deserted stretch of Crescent Beach. Full of the joy of self-locomotion, he...
05.09.2023 Around the Island Charity’s Column: A memorable bridal shower When my son and his girlfriend finally told us last year they had decided to marry this fall, I cried tears of joy, told them both how much I...