After 20 or more years of faithful service, our overstuffed dryer gave a sad little grunt and wheezed to a stop, leaving many too many wet beach towels behind.

The Broadway legend offered encouragement to a young composer and conductor, and it stuck with her for a lifetime.

Was it so long ago that I wrote about the articulate students, survivors of the Stoneman Douglas mass shooting, who had come to the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C., to speak eloquently of their suffering?

A Hamptons Cannabis Expo at the Clubhouse, pop-up piercings on East Hampton's Main Street, and a heck of a shoe sale at the American Legion in Amagansett.