10.31.2011 Columns Prose & Comments: Ghosts of Halloween past Halloween is a magical time on Shelter Island, falling leaves, pumpkins in every size and shape lining stairs and guarding doorways and huge inflatable ghouls that lie like colorful...
10.26.2011 Columns Prose & Comments: The budget process explained For some reason — perhaps the bad economy — more people have asked me to explain how the budget process works this year than in my previous seven years...
09.28.2011 Columns Prose & Comments: Crunch time by the bird feeder BY JAMES BORNEMEIER For a mere handful of dollars, our bird feeder has provided an abundance of avian highjinks. Hanging off a dogwood branch outside the bay window of...
09.14.2011 Columns Prose & Comments: The 18 foundlings BY NELL LOWELL It was Saturday, Hurricane Irene was set to arrive that evening and into Sunday. I was running around trying to clean up the yard and running...
08.10.2011 Columns Prose & Comments: A teacher stretches her boundaries to two more continents BY LEE MOHLERE I have been really fortunate to travel a good amount in my life but something I always wanted to do was live abroad and work with...