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...
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’...
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