02.24.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: The strangest thing The above title is flagrantly risky, especially in an age of such unremitting strangeness. I’m typing this as I await the blizzard we’ve been promised. It will be...
02.04.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: The Cane Mutiny Here I am, a gimpy old widow-woman with a cane, in her 80th year, snowed-in (or was), for the fourth time, in a world that’s imploding hourly. I hear...
01.23.2026 Featured Story Jennifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Jan. 23, 2026 That our democracy could’ve lasted 250 years — our present appallingly disreputable condition notwithstanding — truly begs credulity. Not only does it fly in the face of our species’...
01.10.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: Birthday of a Nation Happy New Year, dear readers! I’ve tried to cobble together some kind of relevant, readable and maybe even hopeful first-column-of-2026 to submit for your inspection, but then our country...
12.16.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Let it snow The snow still looked pretty Monday morning, with early sun slanting across my mostly pristine white yard. Yesterday, though, was just plain magical, like a Jacqui Lawson greeting card....