Guestwords

How well do bioplastics decompose? While they claim to be compostable, many, including the most common, require industrial high-temperature composting and do not degrade in home composters, soil, or water.

We need to show Americans a higher power that has a story they can claim as their own. We need to show that God is empowering ordinary people to do God’s work in the face of dark forces.

For 30 years my life and my brother’s did not cross, despite good reasons to reconnect. And then it all changed.

What happens when loss is slow, the goodbye extended? Is it something to treasure or to dread?

My husband and I took long, life-affirming cycling trips, until one day everything changed.

Scientists have discovered a new pill that will do away with both toothpaste and toothbrushes, not to mention human agency altogether.

The bandbox, a staple of 19th-century travel, was more than just a practical storage solution. It was a symbol of newfound freedom for a feminine work force.

When a beloved children’s book author took up residence in a tiny playhouse in Wainscott.

On the evils of Christian nationalism.

Georgia is at a crossroads, and its citizens have taken to the streets in a relentless fight for democracy, freedom, and Euro-Atlantic integration.

On earthquakes, literal and artistic, and how art has the power to not just reflect the times, but shape them.

Two years have passed since I started my adventure teaching memoir writing behind bars. It’s like group therapy without the therapist.

Before the fire — memories of an idyllic California childhood.

It’s been a long, lousy month since Danny Murray of the Fairway restaurant passed away.

Finding resolve and relief in the music of Peggy Lee.

Pigeons are among the least-valued birds. But the more you know about them, the more you value them.

The best thing about growing up in the same house in Queens with my grandparents was how Grandpa revealed himself to be a storyteller like no other.

First I hated driving the Cross Bronx Expressway. Then I discovered many other ways to hate it in “The Power Broker,” Robert Caro’s monumental biography of Robert Moses, the designer of it and so much else affecting our transportation lives.

The Great Chain of Being — a scatological take.

I recently traveled alone to the West Bank of Palestine for three weeks to teach a course in documentary filmmaking. This is what I saw.

This Friday through Sunday after Thanksgiving, a new chapter of Hamptons Pride history will be written in the East Hampton Presbyterian Church, as quilts from the National AIDS Memorial will be on display.

A writer looks forward to the intimacy, quiet, and soul nourishment of winter.

There are people in my Protestant church tradition who will say you shouldn’t mix politics and religion. But that’s impossible. The teachings in Scripture in any of our religious traditions call for responsible action based on central affirmations of faith.

Memories of a time abroad that taught one writer how to truly experience travel.

Proposals for some development regulations that just might save this place are up for a public hearing with town board members next Thursday, Nov. 7, at 6 p.m. at Town Hall.

Thoughts on a neighborhood spraying of pesticides, weekly through the end of December.

In 2017, the Republican Congress capped the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction. Then-President Trump eagerly signed it. This cap has severely hit Suffolk residents’ net income and the region’s economy.   

The Hampton Jitney’s video of tips and rules sends a regular rider over the edge.

The Patchogue-Medford High School class of 1962 gathers, and a novelist gets to thinking.

It can happen here: Applying a professor’s Tourism Area Life Cycle metric is revealing, bordering on bracing.