06.24.2021 Columns Charity’s Column: Quitting time A week ago, I finally flung off the mask, and started hugging people in public. Some of them hugged me back. The collective feeling of a new start is...
06.19.2021 Columns A Father’s Day memory, when a daughter ran with her dad This story appeared in the June 25, 2015 issue of the Reporter The 3-mile marker of the 36th annual Shelter Island 10K Run was a lot more than just...
06.12.2021 Columns The Naturalist: Simultaneous Are you drowning, or are you swimming? Or are you simultaneously doing both? So much of life is this dichotomy. I am training for a triathlon to swim 2.4...
06.11.2021 Columns Just Saying: A matter of time Like zillions of other people, we are eager to travel now that the plague has pretty much subsided. It’s an acquired taste, but we have come to be fans...
06.07.2021 Around the Island The doctor is in: The binge-drinking heart throb . Abundant alcohol intake is well known for its damage to the heart and liver, but evidence grows that it’s strongly associated with heart throbs. No. Not that kind....
06.04.2021 Columns Codger’s Column: The coming maskerade Codger might never take off his mask if it weren’t for his iPhone, which insists he tap out his password if it can’t see his naked face. It’s easier...
06.01.2021 Columns Run For Life: Is running boring? The drama of running is not apparent, but still very real. Football and baseball keep you excited for seconds: “Wow, did ya see that catch? And now a word...
05.29.2021 Around the Island Jenifer’s Journal: Pirate season ‘Not all treasure’s silver and gold, mate.’ — Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean) It may not be printed on your Nature Conservancy calendar, but it’s the start of...
05.27.2021 Around the Island Charity’s Column: Change, mortality and an earworm I had a little problem this spring. Every time I went to the IGA to get a half-gallon of milk, I picked up a deadly ear worm. At some...
05.23.2021 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Consider the horseshoe crab … before it’s too late For decades, Suffolk County resident John T. Tanacredi has been a crusader for the survival of horseshoe crabs. He is a world expert on the creatures. He was speaking...
05.22.2021 Around the Island Jenifer’s Journal: Dream house I live in my house as I live inside my skin. — Primo Levi Thanks to “mortgage forbearance,” I just paid my first mortgage payment in a year. I’m...
05.18.2021 Columns Coping with the Crisis: The New Challenge of Re-entry Many people remember the date that I call “two-weeks after the second shot day.” Mine was on February 25. Although my behavior didn’t drastically change, I did feel a...
05.17.2021 Columns Gimme Shelter: Remembering Nick At 7 a.m. on a Monday more than a decade ago, alone in the Southampton Press newsroom, I was paralyzed, staring at the computer screen. Hired a week before,...
05.16.2021 Columns Run For Your Life: Winning by losing (weight) For millions of years, humans fed themselves off the land. The energy to find food balanced its nutrition and people had no weight management problems. Then all hell broke...
05.16.2021 Columns Suffok Closeup: Democrats see a Congressional seat for the taking By launching a campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives this month, Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming (D-Noyac), who represents Shelter Island, is moving early and with strength to...
