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The Shipwreck Rose: Unprofessional

I was a wide-eyed greenhorn assigned to a night squad of world-weary veterans when I first joined the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association about five years ago.

Jan 19, 2023
Point of View: It’s Nice to Know the Brain Grows

Let’s hear it for knowledge, knowledge that can be applied to ameliorate the world’s ills.

Jan 19, 2023
The Mast-Head: Going Crackers

Sometimes the do-it-yourself bug strikes because of a great interest in a particular craft; other times, it’s just the money. I am susceptible to both urges, as in a newfound passion for making crackers.

Jan 19, 2023
The Shipwreck Rose: Smash Up

Things keep breaking. In 2023, the infant year, I’ve accidentally dropped and smashed plenty.

Jan 12, 2023
Point of View: Violence Has Us in Its Grip

The potential for explosive, cathartic moments is what leads us to play sports and to watch them, and it seems that with a number of them the possibility of serious injury, or even death, is ever present.

Jan 12, 2023
The Mast-Head: Sly Solar Grin

Rooftop solar on the early-1960s house I live in provides me with a reason to gloat: electric bills that run a steady $14 a month.

Jan 12, 2023
Gristmill: The Late Show

Notes from a Jeremy Strong fan club member.

Jan 12, 2023
The Mast-Head: Switching to Green

I am now on my second plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, at a combined gas and electric of 100 or more miles per gallon the way I drive it.

Jan 5, 2023
Point of View: Positive You’re Negative?

I had no Covid symptoms, but that apparently, according to what I read, wasn’t necessarily a cause for celebration.

Jan 5, 2023
Gristmill: After Hopper

Adventures at the Whitney, on the High Line, and in a lost New York.

Jan 5, 2023
The Mast-Head: Gum Them Clams

My brother, Dan, used to say that one could survive perfectly well eating nothing other than brown rice and clams.

Dec 29, 2022
Gristmill: The Good Fight

The Ukrainian president cuts through the nonsense.

Dec 29, 2022