08.06.2017 Columns Column: Lessons from a first-time yard sale When my wife, Vera, first proposed having a yard sale, I gave her a one-word response. “Ugh.” The thought of dragging every item that no longer has value to...
06.18.2017 Columns Column: What? The worrying doesn’t stop? Even to this day, with kids, a wife and a home of my own, every single phone call with my father ends with the same parting words: “Be careful...
04.16.2017 Columns Column: Nothing beats April when it comes to sports When I started dating my wife in July 2010, my timing couldn’t have been better. The Mets were 47-39. While not a bad record, it was the point in...
03.04.2017 Columns Parpan Column: Is Congressman Zeldin vulnerable in 2018? In 2009, shortly after New York State passed the ill-advised MTA payroll tax, I found myself in a conversation with a campaign staffer for former state Senator Brian Foley....
01.08.2017 Columns Column: My kid wants just one thing — every toy My son is spoiled. I talked a big game before he was born. “Any kid of mine better get used to hearing the word no,” I’d say. “I’m going...
12.07.2016 Columns Russell Penny, killed at Pearl Harbor, was Suffolk’s first WWII casualty “The Secretary of War desires me to express his deep regret that your son, Russell M. Penny, was killed in action in defense of his country at Hickham Field,...
11.19.2016 Columns Column: Now is a good time to feel inspired Lately, it seems everyone just wants an escape from the election. Last week, I had been planning a humor column about people posting on Facebook that they couldn’t wait...
11.09.2016 Columns Parpan Column: Notes from a historic election night Shortly before my head hit the pillow at 2 a.m. Wednesday, I scanned Facebook to see how my friends were reacting to the news that Donald Trump would likely...