12.17.2011 Community By the Book: Book buying isn’t taking a holiday I don’t know why people always say “I hate to say I told you so” when it’s perfectly clear that “I told you so” are some of the sweetest...
12.04.2011 Community By the Book: These gals always find out whodunit I was recently in the Southold library Book Cottage and coughed up a dollar for a copy of “The Haunted Bridge” by Carolyn Keene. I presented it to my...
07.06.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: Some savory reads for the summer I finally have an acceptable reason to dislike Philip Roth. I read “Portnoy’s Complaint” when I was a kid, because we all did, snickering at the “dirty” parts. There...
06.21.2011 Uncategorized By the Book: Satisfying results of cookbookkeeping The big box book store in Riverhead has cookbooks everywhere, and each one you pick up is more colorful than the one you just put down. They’re all over...
02.28.2011 Uncategorized Book Column: Reconnecting with some old friends There are 10 Commandments, several sins against the Holy Spirit, innumerable offenses that cry to heaven for vengeance and surely many other lists of forbidden acts from congregations unknown...
11.29.2010 Uncategorized Book Column: Twinkle, twinkle, so few stars The Christmas catalogs are pouring in and I’m in a quandary over what to put on my personal wish list. It’s the colors of the clothes that confound me;...