12.05.2015 Columns Parpan Column: Tipping is now more awkward than ever I’m a big fan of tipping. I feel it’s one small way to give back to folks who could really use the money — and the best way to...
11.14.2015 Columns Column: It’s all downhill after age 30. Or is it? You’ll have to excuse the gloomy face of late. But at least most of the readers here can likely relate.
06.27.2015 Columns Column: The one friend who never leaves my side I’ve already owned two iPads. My newest MacBook Pro laptop is probably the fourth or fifth computer I’ve used since beginning my career here in 2006. (Some suffered ill...
06.20.2015 Columns Parpan Column: Sometimes a compliment is all it takes I can still remember the moment I knew what I was going to do for a living. I didn’t know this would be the company I’d work for or...
06.11.2015 Columns Column: Seven years in community newspapers I had a few things in mind when I left a good job at the Daily News in 2008 to write for a weekly newspaper in a place I...
12.24.2014 Columns Column: Everything you never wanted for Christmas At some point, we’ve all received a gift that hasn’t exactly jingled our bells. And, let’s admit it, most of us have given those disappointing gifts as well on...
11.15.2014 Columns Parpan Column: Suffolk Dems looking mighty blue these days When I began reporting on Suffolk County politics back in February 2006, the Democratic party here was on the rise. In Brookhaven Town, where I was assigned at the...
09.13.2014 Columns Column: Taxis for women needed out here, too Women have made huge inroads over decades in many fields long — and unfairly — considered the exclusive territory of men. Print and broadcast journalism, of course, come immediately...
