04.19.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: April 19, 2026 If it’s April, it’s “Poetry Month,” and I can hear the sighs and tacit “So whats?” already. So what? Well, I’ll tell you. Three years ago this month, I...
04.08.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Springing into action I’ll admit the headline is a tad cliché, but “Springtime,” kind of a uber-cliché itself, is riddled with them. Think of the countless song titles: “Spring is Here,” “It...
03.25.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Alphabet soup In the I’ve always been a fidgeter, a hair-twirler, a nail-biter — my foot always bouncing when I’m sitting still. An inveterate procrastinator by age 8, by high...
03.13.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Loose ends Almost two weeks ago, writing in my other journal, I wrote the date on the top line with celebratory hearts, and flowers all around. It was my younger daughter’s...
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...
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