05.06.2022 Columns Codger’s Column: Alternate vacations Codger’s old buddy, Crock, has been shuttling in and out of local hospitals lately and visiting him has resuscitated Codger’s own hospital memories and the accompanying feelings of dread,...
10.16.2020 Columns Codger’s Column: Orange Man blues Several months ago, even before President Trump totally unmasked himself, Codger furloughed — with an option to fire — a friend of almost 40 years. It was not a...
01.23.2020 Columns Codger Column: Already missing Paul on the Town Board About 10 years ago, as Paul Shepherd told Codger recently, “frustrated as a citizen and despondent over regulations I felt were crippling my carpentry business,” he began showing up...
11.28.2019 Columns Codger gives thanks As everyone knows, Codger loves Thanksgiving, his favorite holiday, a festival of family, food and the lunatic fun of the Friends of the Library’s Turkey Plunge, an annual rite...
10.06.2019 Columns Codger: On the waterfront While pre-habbing for a hip replacement in two weeks, Codger has been reading a book so scary in its planetary prognosis that he has hardly had time to think...