Insomnia is how I personally discovered the philosophical truth that “I think therefore I am,” a  couple of years before I heard the name Descartes and “Cogito, ergo sum” at boarding school.

Good for a hundred years, why in the world were New York’s old voting machines ever put out to pasture?

Every week I hike a Pennsylvania nature trail named for my late friend Jere Knight. It’s my thank-you to her for trusting me to write the first biography of her late husband Eric Knight, the English-American author of the novel “Lassie Come-Home.”

An East Hampton gym closes, and the Chamber of Commerce organizes a holiday shopping campaign to help local merchants.