02.26.2024 Around the Island How to stay — when to leave: Seniors, and crucial decisions to make The adult children are concerned about their mom in her house alone. She has cognitive impairment and the bills are not getting paid. They want her to leave, but...
01.26.2024 Around the Island Shelter Island Reporter Column: Taming the monster In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago tells Othello that jealousy is the “green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” In other words, the “monster” becomes all-consuming and destructive....
12.21.2023 Around the Island Shelter Island Reporter column: What makes happiness? This is the time of year when happiness seems to be everywhere, at school events, holiday gatherings, Christmas tree and Hanukkah lightings, and in advertising promoting miles of smiles...
11.20.2023 Around the Island Moving Forward: When the news is intolerable Few of us alive today remember World War II. Europe and Japan were decimated, but except for Pearl Harbor (a big exception), the war played out outside of America....
10.23.2023 Around the Island Moving Forward: It’s only normal aging There has been a lot of talk recently about how old is too old to serve in public office. It is a complicated question and I have no intention...