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...
09.24.2016 Columns Column: Comments that only trivialize a tragedy While cutting a lawn in Ridge last Tuesday, Julio Aceituno-Perez, a landscaper from Flanders, was struck by a 2005 Cadillac driven by Brianna Hassett, 24, of Wading River.
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...
08.13.2016 Columns Column: The hard truth about maternity leave I cried earlier this week. It was Sunday, the first full day I would be leaving little Nora Jane Parpan — born May 19 at a healthy 7 pounds,...
03.15.2016 Sports Column: Finally, a college sports team to call our own Watching the Stony Brook men’s basketball team fall behind by double digits early in the second half of the America East championship game Saturday, I felt something I haven’t...
02.07.2016 Columns Column: A later school start time makes a lot of sense My mornings start the same way each day. Thump. Thump. Mama. Dada. Mama. Dada. (Repeat, repeat, repeat …) This happens sometime between 4:45 and 6:45 a.m., pretty much without...
01.04.2015 Columns Parpan Column: 2014 was a year full of tragedy There is a common misconception among the public that the media enjoys reporting bad news. That’s simply not true. I’ve seen a certain look on enough reporters’ faces when...