12.01.2024 Around the Island Just Saying: Gifts that remain From a kid’s perspective, it was the best Christmas in terms of sheer loot. First off, I got a new high-end bicycle. Back then, in my neck of the...
11.03.2024 Around the Island Shelter Island Reporter column: Tree conversations After spending the 1970s in Vermont, I became something of a connoisseur of fall foliage. Unless you lived in a city, which I didn’t, you were surrounded by hills...
05.30.2024 Around the Island Just saying: He and me We were high school classmates. We were fellow musicians — saxophonists. I was a student council sort of guy (not sure why). He was a fine fellow but a...
03.24.2024 Around the Island Just Saying: A fan(atic’s) notes Thursday is Opening Day for Major League Baseball. If you are a mildly rabid fan, like me, the days after the World Series are rather gloomy. Opening Day seems...
03.13.2024 Around the Island Column: Remembering Faye I knew her a little bit in Los Angeles when I was in low middle management in Metro at the L.A. Times. She had been hired away from The...
