09.10.2016 Columns Parpan Column: More hot air coming from your monitor I was in the early stages of a fantasy football draft when I first noticed the code red alert at the top of the television screen: It called for all...
08.27.2016 Columns Parpan Column: Important victory for young people interested in organ donation I remember the day I became a registered organ donor. I was 23 years old and a few months removed from leaving the State of New York for sunny...
07.23.2016 Columns Parpan Column: An event that brought Main Street to life About two years ago, I wrote a column entitled “Is Riverhead a Cracker Barrel kind of town?” At the time, I was lamenting both the closing of the former...
06.19.2016 Columns Parpan: An unfunny column for my dad on Father’s Day About two years ago this newspaper conducted a reader survey in which some of you told us one of the biggest improvements you’d like us to make is to...
05.28.2016 Columns Parpan Column: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … toddler? He’s slower than a tortoise, scrawnier than a Williamsburg hipster and, even if he tried to leap a tall building in a single bound, his feet would barely...
05.07.2016 Columns Column: A seat at the ‘Ugly American’ table in Canada It was an innocent question, I suppose, that I should have expected from someone in another country. Still, I was taken aback two weeks ago when I overheard the...
03.05.2016 Columns Parpan Column: A ‘Spotlight’ on a story that needs to be told There’s a scene late in the Academy Award-winning film “Spotlight” in which a reporter visits a courthouse to secure a document sure to break open The Boston Globe’s investigation...
02.27.2016 Columns Parpan Column: We’re living in a gofundeverybody world GoFundMe describes itself as the world’s number one personal fundraising site, with over $2 billion raised in its first five years in business. It’s a crowdfunding source that has...