08.31.2013 Columns Column: Anyone for tennis? Not anymore With the U.S. Open getting underway this week at Flushing Meadows on the opposite end of Long Island, perhaps this is an inopportune time to ask if tennis is,...
07.20.2013 Columns Column: Mr. Bishop, gift, don’t sell, Plum Island In a strong showing of bipartisanship and environmental activism, a coalition of pols and tree huggers gathered on a rocky beach overlooking Plum Island in sweltering heat Tuesday morning...
05.25.2013 Columns Column: My own version of ‘Grumpy Old Men’ Yes, it’s true. Somehow I’ve become a Grumpy Old Man and my only excuse is the inexorable acceleration of time. This grumpiness might actually have started a few years...
05.11.2013 Columns Gustavson Column: Can’t convince me I had the worst job An outfit named CareerCast recently released a list of the “worst jobs” for 2013. To earn a spot on the list, a job had to feature “low pay, high...
04.13.2013 Columns Gustavson Column: More tears for Newtown massacre Yes, it’s true: I’m a crybaby. I cry at movies (“Shane,” “Cast Away,” etc.), I cried for two weeks straight as an 11-year-old at summer camp and I cried...
03.30.2013 Columns Column: One life ends, but another begins anew This is one of those columns that’s pretty much going to write itself, I think. Sometimes I struggle to find a worthy subject (and sometimes I don’t find one),...
01.20.2013 Columns Gustavson Column: Reluctantly, still a football fan The former Joan Giger Walker and I have not been seeing too much of each other recently. She’s been in one room reading books and doing crossword puzzles; I’ve...
09.23.2012 Columns Gustavson Column: The night I made a truly bad choice A confession: I recently drove a car when I shouldn’t have. It came at the end of a long and beautiful day of showing off the North Fork to...