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Guestwords: Passing Down Lyme Disease

We need to get the word out to Lyme-infected mothers-to-be and to women of childbearing age who have mysterious, systemic health problems with no clear cause.

May 18, 2023
Guestwords: Gifts From the Attic

A rediscovered letter from 1972 sheds new light on parenting.

May 11, 2023
Guestwords: On the Old Back Lots

Contested Marsden Street in Sag Harbor? As kids we called the area the back lots. Here’s its story.

May 4, 2023
Guestwords: The Wild West of Building

When the construction never lets up, the rules have got to change.

Apr 27, 2023
Guestwords: Let Us Eat Cake

Adventures with an American cheesecake in Normandy.

Apr 20, 2023
Guestwords: Zoning’s Perfect Storm

A storm of aggressive and sometimes egregious development is upon us, and the East Hampton Town Building Department is unsupported. This is a disastrous combination.

Apr 13, 2023
Guestwords: Amazon Time

So what’s it really like to take a job as an Amazon driver?

Apr 6, 2023
Guestwords: Hoop Dreams

Rediscovering basketball on my street in Springs, I began to lose myself in the joy of just being in my body and rekindling my relationship with my younger self and a ball.

Mar 30, 2023
Guestwords: Hero of Insured Deposits

In a newly unstable banking environment, American depositors can thank William H. Woodin of East Hampton for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Mar 23, 2023
Guestwords: The Sins of the Fathers

How did we get to this precarious situation with Montauk’s water quality? The problem, in a word, is overdevelopment.

Mar 16, 2023
Guestwords: A President for Adults

As Jimmy Carter is now in hospice care, I wonder what might have happened had his prescient words on conservation and self-sacrifice been heeded.

Mar 9, 2023
Guestwords: Driver’s Ed Drop-Off

Thoughts on that road sign that says: Last Exit Before the End of Your Usefulness as a Person.

Mar 2, 2023
Guestwords: Memories of Burt Bacharach

The passing of Burt Bacharach on Feb. 8 frees me to reveal that he was my first love.

Feb 23, 2023
Guestwords: The Real Venture Smith

The remarkable story of a man of character who bought his way out of bondage and became a successful landowner.

Feb 16, 2023
Guestwords: ‘Morning, Sweetest’

Love is revealed in a rediscovered box of notes from 1999.

Feb 9, 2023
Guestwords: Of Places and People

From presidential libraries to art centers, there is inspiration to be found in quiet places that reflect the vision and ambition of the exceptional people whose legacies they preserve.

Feb 2, 2023
Guestwords: The DSM — Goodreads **

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders came in handy when I was terminating my analysis. I recommend it.

Jan 26, 2023
Guestwords: A Bus Driver Says Goodbye

As I move on to another chapter of my life, I am grateful that each day I had the privilege of spending my mornings and afternoons with so much life in its early stages, where everything is new and interesting and exciting.

Jan 19, 2023
Guestwords: Somebody Up There Likes Me

After a rollover, one man has his faith in his fellow citizens restored.

Jan 12, 2023
Guestwords: Gifts That Keep Giving

From our correspondent in Pennsylvania comes a tribute to an illustrator for 50 straight years of Christmas cards that are works or art.

Jan 5, 2023
Guestwords: Meeting Groucho and Cavett

A chance encounter with Dick Cavett on an East Hampton beach leads to a long-term friendship. And to Groucho.

Dec 29, 2022
Guestwords: Cakes for Peace

Just imagine how much more peaceful the world would be if difficult and/or coldhearted people were walloped with a million daily currents of kindness and love.

Dec 22, 2022
Guestwords: Our Obsession With Winning

Trump’s actions with respect to losing the election, while extreme, is hardly new. Winning is a supreme value in American culture.

Dec 15, 2022
Guestwords: Too Many Sweatpants

With its wide legs, its shapeless backside, its expanding waistline, the sweatpant is the official garment of the borderless, post-pandemic world.

Dec 8, 2022
Guestwords: A Day With Pelé 

Pictures of Pelé flashing on TV as FIFA World Cup fever spreads from Qatar to Queens bring back memories of a writer’s sort-of date with him.

Dec 1, 2022
Guestwords: The Real Thanksgiving

Was it a quirk of history or the hand of God that brought Squanto and William Bradford together?

Nov 23, 2022
Guestwords: Rethinking Preservation

The Nov. 3 vote in the Sag Harbor School District to approve buying five lots near the high school with C.P.F. help was significant. It forces all of us to rethink what preservation means for the East End.

Nov 17, 2022
Guestwords: Fork Play: Remembering Gael Greene

As New York magazine’s pioneering “Insatiable Critic” and the first foodie, a term she coined, Gael Greene made dining out a sensual experience to be savored.

Nov 10, 2022
Guestwords: Fuel Lessons From History

The Group of 7 has decided to cap the price it will pay for Russian oil. There may be lessons for that challenge in U.S. history, from World War I to the coal wars of 1922.

Nov 3, 2022
Guestwords: Hope vs. Despair

Last year a group of us decided to tackle our ecological despair with action in a landscape we love — East Hampton and eastern Long Island. We started in our own yards.

Oct 27, 2022