07.15.2018 Columns Column: When it’s simply too hot for you to potchke When it gets very hot on Shelter Island, chickens lay fewer eggs, turkeys call a temporary truce in the battle for reproductive rights and the horses on Midway Road...
10.21.2017 Columns Column: An unemployed wedding planner waits Birds do it. Bees do it. If I’m lucky, my sons will do it. In the meantime, I’m an unemployed wedding planner.
05.14.2017 Columns Column: Celebrating all the mothers in your life Since 1913, when Congress officially recognized the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day, Americans have celebrated this most traditional of made-up holidays.
04.10.2016 Columns Column: The voices on the other side of the dial The first time I visited my husband’s parents, I noticed that his dad carried a small radio from room to room of their New Jersey garden apartment, tuned to...
08.29.2015 Columns Column: Getting to know you (a little too closely) There are birthday celebrations that are given to you, and then there are the ones you give yourself.
06.07.2015 Columns Column: When a dinner party takes a turn for the worse My husband and I rarely go to dinner parties. Most Saturday nights, I cook something, my husband does the dishes, we read a little and, if we’re feeling really...
05.02.2015 Columns Guest Column: Lessons from a year of living doglessly Last April, our beloved dachshund, Hudson, died. He was 12, which is pretty old in dog years, as they say. My husband suggested we wait a year before we...
