09.15.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Regeneration My focus for this column was going to be “vaccinations,” because I’m old, and I hear they’re just as important to me, and my elder-buds, now as they were...
09.04.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Ithacas The end of summer is what the word “bittersweet” was made for. June, July and August aren’t just months, but time out of time, especially for kids, to whom...
08.22.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Dry spell Not exactly an inspirational headline, but at least an ironic one. The most frequently-heard phrase this whole long, dry summer, has been, even when the barest of sprinkles has...
07.28.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Timing Bad timing, good timing: everyone over the age of six knows — from experience, mind you — that, as Bobby Burns points out, “The best laid plans of mice...
07.18.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Idioms’ delight As I finish up this column, hope you’re “all ears,” because this comes “straight from the horse’s mouth:” Nobody “dropped the ball” as far as the Island fireworks were...
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