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....
12.02.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Necessary evil The number of grandparents who have taken one or more grandchildren to see some iteration of “Wicked”— the original Broadway show, the recent revival, or at least one of...
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