07.14.2012 Columns From the slow lane: Our own Island caught between clashing forks Is it any wonder that Shelter Island sometimes feels like the unwanted child in a custody battle, getting tossed between the legislative districts of two forks, neither of which...
04.19.2012 Columns From the Slow Lane: The infrequent flier: a tale of frustration At the risk of sounding like a frequent-flying whiner (as opposed to the occasionally flying whiner that I am) I miss the days of flying the friendly skies when...
02.10.2012 Columns From the Slow Lane: We like it when it snows where you are Exactly what do snowbirds do, you may be wondering, while we are temporarily displaced for the winter? Some people spend their time on the golf course, playing tennis or...
01.19.2012 Columns From the Slow Lane: Got a pulse? Then shuddup, why don’tcha? Here we are, for the eighth winter in a row, surrounded by a couple hundred other snowbird RVers — mostly retired military people living in motor homes — waiting...
12.24.2011 Columns From the Slow Lane: Warm Christmas memories from Key West I passed Santa on the sidewalk last Saturday and I’m pretty sure he was the real Santa. He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot...