05.15.2023 Columns Codger’s Column: In the stacks Codger has always loved libraries the way other people love ballfields or music rooms or auto shops or, these days, computers. As a kid he felt happy and safe...
04.16.2023 Columns Codger’s Column: Thank Dog Codger and Crone hadn’t had a decent night’s sleep in two weeks, tending to Cur II’s uncooperative recovery from ACL surgery. The doctor’s orders were clear; the big poodle...
03.19.2023 Columns Codger’s Column: A matter of ethics Cur II, that prince of poodles, is booked for surgery next week to repair a ruptured ACL, so he and Codger have been limping around the neighborhood discussing to-do...
02.21.2023 Columns Codger’s column: Pickle and slap Codger’s lumbar region attempted to secede from the rest of his back around the time when pickleball lines were being drawn on the school tennis courts, so he has...
01.23.2023 Columns Codger’s column: On the level This is the year Codger will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Shelter Island. By Codger. Well, O.K., there were inhabitants on the Island when Codger arrived,...