11.18.2023 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Granular gratitude I reminded myself a few days ago that I have to get a column in by this Thursday in time for next week’s early Thanksgiving edition. I’d already written...
11.12.2023 Columns Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: 86’d With the horrors of the last few weeks, the slaughter in Israel, the massacre in Maine still luridly fresh in my mind, competing for attention with the sweet images...
10.28.2023 Around the Island Jenifer’s Journal: Selfies Although “selfies”— those ubiquitous, sometimes haphazard, sometimes carefully curated cellphone self-portraits — may deserve their own column considering what they say regarding the state of our society, the “selfies”...
10.10.2023 Around the Island The age old question [We] contain multitudes…Walt Whitman And just what is that “age-old question?” I’ve tried to avoid acknowledging it, but the blither surrounding the current president’s upcoming presidential run is...
09.24.2023 Around the Island Jenifer’s Journal: Talking turkey I’m talking turkey today. While Islanders may continue splitting hares about the actual derivation, not to mention definition, of “harelegger,” I maintain that, in the past decade or two,...