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Guestwords: Turning 90

It’s typical of people my age to look back with nostalgia and say it’s too bad everything has gone to hell. But I look forward.

May 16, 2024
Guestwords: The Mother You Get

I wanted someone who baked cookies. My mother painted pictures.

May 9, 2024
Guestwords: Life With Panic Disorder

Panic attacks tend to come unannounced, while panic disorder constitutes a recurrence of these attacks, along with the constant fear of having more of them. Here is how I dealt with it all.

May 2, 2024
Guestwords: Tips for Growing Old in N.Y.C.

New York, it’s a wonderful place to spend your golden years — if you mind these few dos and don’ts, that is.

Apr 25, 2024
Guestwords: A Benchmark Garden Speech

On the occasion of the wartime opening of the extended nature trail at David’s Lane, a 79-year-old conservationist reminded us why we need the greenery.

Apr 18, 2024
Guestwords: Leaving the Farmhouse

Memories of 1978 and a final, snowy departure for college upstate.

Apr 11, 2024
Guestwords: Did You Feel That?

Taiwan just got rocked, 30 years ago it was Northridge, California, and it could happen here. What’s it like to ride out the big one?

Apr 4, 2024
Guestwords: Our Own Backyards

As we are bombarded with information detailing catastrophic environmental degradation around the world, it often seems we live in a bubble here on the East End.

Mar 28, 2024
Guestwords: The Yalie on the Bus

On an Audubon expedition into the American Southwest with busload of college kids in the early 1990s, among them was a young John Avlon, now running for Congress.

Mar 21, 2024
Guestwords: American Apathy

This is not the time to bury our heads in the sand or in our electronic devices.

Mar 14, 2024
Guestwords: Tale of Two Inquisitions

What I learned playing the Grand Inquisitor in a high school play, while experiencing my own interrogations off the stage.

Mar 7, 2024
Guestwords: Too Much Art?

At an arty dinner party in Sag Harbor a woman announced to the table, “There’s just too much art!” If that day ever comes, we’re in trouble.

Feb 29, 2024
Guestwords: Snowy Skies

How can friends who’ve headed to Florida or the Bahamas possibly get through a winter without the visceral remembrances of snowy days?

Feb 22, 2024
Guestwords: What I Lost With Joe

A tale of two ad men.

Feb 15, 2024
Guestwords: Normalcy, Never Again

My generation has been living in America’s Second Reconstruction. With some improvements from the first in the 1870s, we still fight for inclusion, seek diversity, and hope for equity.

Feb 8, 2024
Guestwords: The Best Was Yet to Come

The Broadway and pop composer Cy Coleman died nearly 20 years ago. In time for the Grammys, a remembrance of the always fun times with him, from Elaine’s to the Hamptons.

Feb 1, 2024
Guestwords: Bookstore Days

Notes from a golden age for the New York City bibliophile.

Jan 25, 2024
Guestwords: Barbenheimer Redux

For your consideration: The oddest couple in movie history.

Jan 18, 2024
Guestwords: Erewhon Dreaming

If you’ve ever shopped at Erewhon, you’re most likely aware that the luxury grocery store is the trendiest place in Los Angeles to see and be seen. The hype is real, the shopping experience far from ordinary.

Jan 11, 2024
Guestwords: Bad Chemistry

Much of what ails the world today is a result of Western governments arbitrarily dividing foreign lands that they have colonized or occupied with no consideration of national sovereignty or demographics.

Jan 4, 2024
Guestwords: It’s Apocalyptic

Anyone seeking an antidote to pervasive fear may find it in focusing on the good that might be coming our way right now — that way we can receive it, spread it around, and give it life.

Dec 28, 2023
Guestwords: Behind the Trade Parade

A nod to the hard-working, industrious folk slogging through the infamous East End traffic to keep the place functioning.

Dec 21, 2023
Guestwords: Origin of Hatred

To live a protected life is to know too little. It’s a segregation of the mind bounded by proscribed language.

Dec 14, 2023
Guestwords: Football Healing

A case is made for the 1973 Bonac football team’s inclusion in East Hampton High’s Hall of Fame — and memories are triggered.

Dec 7, 2023
Guestwords: A Call for Muscle

What should Jews do about the rise in antisemitism? Here are a few modest proposals.

Nov 30, 2023
Guestwords: Wanted: One Car Czar

The South Fork traffic mess is worse than ever, and it’s driving everyone nuts. 

Nov 22, 2023
Guestwords: There’s No Place Like Home

Playwright, lyricist, actor, debtor, here is John Howard Payne on the 200th anniversary of the unveiling of his song “Home Sweet Home.”

Nov 16, 2023
Guestwords: Fractals in Our Far East

Dr. Robert Marshall’s metaphor of the fractals within a tree is useful in explaining the infinite patterns, and from there it’s a short leap to fractals in the arts.

Nov 9, 2023
Guestwords: A Master of the Surf

How Fred Yardley and the lifeguards of Main Beach pioneered the best way to body surf.

Nov 2, 2023
Guestwords: A Message From the Trees

Our community needs to be educated about what’s here or coming down the pike: Many trees are in trouble.

Oct 26, 2023