04.12.2024 Opinion It’s a marathon, not a sprint: Bridging the gap between neighbors Of course, New Yorkers know what a marathon is: crazy people running 26 miles to prove they’re crazy. Yeah, we have vague memories of the Greek guy who shouted,...
12.02.2023 Sports Run For Your Life: The joy of senior running All of us run (or ran), since running follows life. We start at “0” and only with several years of effort, we walk. From that point, running follows quickly....
11.19.2023 Sports Run For your Life: No sweat. No traffic. No excuses! Here’s a rare winter edition of my running epistles, normally only issued before the June Shelter Island 10K. It’s hard enough to persuade you to run in April, how...
06.23.2023 News I remember Magda: A friend’s tribute to a remarkable Shelter Islander Two Magda Saleh’s graced us here on Shelter Island. There was the public Magda Saleh, Ph.D., fluent in English, Arabic, Russian and French, with passports from the U.K., Egypt,...
11.05.2022 Lifestyle Run (or walk) For Your Life: Practice makes perfect — with a qualification Sports success smiles on the kid who shoots hoops in his driveway basket until it’s too dark to see, or a junior banging a tennis ball off a wall...