10.09.2021 Columns Guest Spot: The Enclaves is a disaster for Southold “Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.” That’s how my neighbor, Bridget, a housepainter, began her letter to the Zoning Board of Appeals, asking them to...
10.04.2020 Columns Guest Column: A breakdown of the social order My father was a lifelong Republican and my mother a lifelong Democrat. Yet in their 50-plus-year marriage, there was never a discussion, heated or otherwise, on candidates or political...
06.28.2020 Columns Guest Spot: For 111 days, we watched and admired I couldn’t hold back the tears last Friday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave his 111th — and final — daily press briefing during the COVID-19 crisis. He promised that...
11.24.2019 Columns Guest Column: Childhood storybooks brought to life Down on my hands and knees, I was building a little moat around a recently transplanted hydrangea. My hands molded and patted down the dirt, moving quickly to build...
09.23.2018 Columns Guest Column: The North Fork will always be home I arrived in Southold by bus in the summer of 1984, having agreed to a house share, sight unseen, with some friends from Rolling Stone magazine. I was 32,...
12.02.2017 Columns Guest Column: Living life like a Rolling Stone Rolling Stone is for sale. Not that I have looked at it in years. It was and is a magazine primarily for young men. There was a time, though,...
07.02.2017 Columns Guest Column: Memories from a working girl in white One small and unexpected delight in getting older is having access to my earnings record on the Social Security website. I marvel at the fact that the first two...
12.17.2016 Columns Guest Column: Now ensconced in small-town life My earliest memories are of playing with the neighborhood gang in the woods behind our house in Long Branch, N.J. We were a mixed group: different ages, boys and...
