04.09.2021 Columns Codger’s Column: Reboot Codger is not entirely looking forward to his world returning to normal, not that he knows what normal means anymore. No masks mean he will have to start shaving...
04.07.2021 Columns Suffolk Closeup: The road to clean, sustainable energy “Long Island Solar Roadmap” is the title of a just-released report on how solar power has “the potential to generate more electricity than Long Island uses each year.” Shelter...
04.06.2021 Around the Island Jenifer’s Journal: An inside job When I was a kid, a standard stuffer I’d often find in my stocking would be one of those little diaries, with four tiny lines allotted for each day...
04.03.2021 Around the Island Charity’s column: A houseplant destined for greatness On March 13, 2020, I left a much-loved 50-year old houseplant standing near the bedroom window of my New York apartment and didn’t return for two months. I left...
04.02.2021 Around the Island A march of many battles I’d never seen her before. We’d never met. I didn’t know her. But she was approaching me with a pointed arm as if to say “You. Stop.” I was...
03.28.2021 Around the Island Column: Discovering the Senior Center We’ve all heard the clichés: “You’re only as old as you feel.” “Sixty is the new 40.” “Age is just a number.” All are true. But is there a...
03.28.2021 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Pols jockey for position if Cuomo leaves “A series of revelations … have damaged the New York governor beyond repair,” the headline in The New Republic magazine declared. The article below it started: “Andrew Cuomo is...
03.27.2021 Around the Island Jenifer’s Journal: Uncommon ground In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.— George Orwell Truth has kind of gone the way of the steam iron, or phones with...
03.26.2021 Columns Gimme Shelter: Just do it Mary and I got our second shots two weeks ago. A happy time, but slightly anti-climactic compared to receiving the first dose, which was euphoric. “I want to live...
03.20.2021 Columns Just saying: Moving on On one hand, we mostly skated through a year of plague. We didn’t get it, nor did any family members. Among our far-flung, mostly newspaper-related circle of friends, we...
03.19.2021 Around the Island ‘We were each other’s everything’: A remembrance of D. Gordon Potts On our first date, he took me to Home Depot. I’d never been to Home Depot, but I know rapture when I see it. And rapture it was. Gordon...
03.17.2021 Columns Gimme Shelter: Stop me if you’ve heard this And you have, for sure. But I’m not proud. It seems a man took a seat at a New York bar and asked the bartender for Jamesons, neat. The...
03.14.2021 Around the Island Jenifer’s Journal: Serendipity “…we are fertilized by mysterious circumstances.” — Antoine de Saint Exupery Back in 1982, I met Karen Lomuscio before I met Richard. Our meeting took place over the head...
03.13.2021 Around the Island Vaccinated. Now what? Three vaccines have been approved for emergency use in the United States. The race is on. One of the most frequently asked questions is which vaccine should I take?...
03.12.2021 Columns Codger’s column: A mere 50 years later Time slows down on Shelter Island, claims Codger, especially if you’re not raising kids or working a job or two, but during this past COVID year time has been...
