03.30.2024 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: Easter connections, March 30, 2024 I must have been about 10, when a few days before Ash Wednesday, my mother asked me what I was planning to give up for Lent. Faking a thoughtful...
03.17.2024 Around the Island The gift of gab: Happy St. Patrick’s Day Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. — William Butler Yeats Hold to the now, the here, through which...
10.02.2019 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Light in October This editorial was originally published on Oct. 6, 2017. We live in a cynical age, one flooded with distractions of our own making and by blowhards in Washington manipulating,...