12.27.2025 Guest Spot Guest Column: Endgame for English? Gather round all tribal members of the Misanthropes, Cranks, Boors, Pedants, Malcontents and Grouches. Please be seated. Is that everyone? Yes, you in the back, the Nitpickers, will you...
12.20.2025 Guest Spot Guest Column: The anguish of family estrangement This holiday season brings joy to many and sadness to some. But those suffering from family estrangement experience a different kind of sadness. It’s a loss that’s often incomprehensible,...
12.13.2025 Guest Spot Guest Spot: The tapestry of self Recently, I attended Bill Bleyer’s presentation on East End whaling, carrying his inscribed book, “Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History.” Bill autographed it with, “Everywhere the sea...
12.06.2025 Guest Spot Guest Column: Always look on the bright side I am the poster child for “Always look on the bright side.” That song from Monty Python’s movie was the theme for my weekly commentary on WLIW radio, back...
11.15.2025 Columns Guest Column: Shutdown As I’m writing, the government is shut down. Hopefully, when you read this it’ll be functioning again. Though I’m not sure how we’ll be able to tell. Oops, did...
09.27.2025 Columns Column: Tales out of (Sunday) school Author’s note: Names have been changed to protect the innocent, who are now fully grown and walk among us. “This isn’t going to end well,” I was warned by...
09.03.2025 Columns Guest Column: Totally hacked I just read a time-saving, moneysaving hack: “Need a moisturizing treatment for your hair? Skip the salon and reach into your refrigerator!” Sounds simple enough, but time-saving, money-saving hacks...
07.06.2025 Opinion Reporter’s Notebook: Jinx! You owe me a soda! It’s something most of us can recall from our childhood — muttering something coincidentally in unison with a friend over lunch or when spotting a punch buggy. My first...
06.20.2025 Reporter's Notebook Reporter’s Notebook: Dinner plans take unexpected turn “What’s for dinner?” I’ll admit, sometimes that phrase tweaks me, especially when I’m still working at 6 p.m. I do cook most nights, but we fall back on takeout...
06.07.2025 Featured Story Column: A matter of time I’m one of those people who is never on time. No, not late. I’m always early. Reaching my destination, I have to walk around blocks, drive in circles, drink...
01.10.2025 Opinion Guest Spot: How to be happier in 2025 We all like to be happy, right? But life can be hard. Or, as my grandfather wisely pointed out, “Life wasn’t meant to be easy. It was meant to...
10.19.2024 Opinion Guest Spot: It’s time to make some hard choices The Oct. 10 issue of The Suffolk Times ran a frontpage story on a request from Sandy Beach residents to designate their Greenport community, which is situated on a...
10.05.2024 Opinion Guest Spot: Support your fellow voters If you want to play a direct role in ensuring that all eligible Suffolk County residents are able to vote in the upcoming election — and that the election...
08.31.2024 Opinion Closing Brookhaven is a chance to end landfills The Brookhaven landfill is rapidly approaching the end of its life. It’s long overdue — for decades, the 270-foot-tall dump has poisoned the South Shore of Long Island. Sitting...
04.19.2024 Opinion Column: Eleanor Lingo’s life is a history lesson In every way, Eleanor Lingo has been a pioneer in Southold Town and across the region. At nearly every stage of her life she broke one color line after...
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