Opinion

When did it become so okay to be a show-off?

Cold spells, baseballs, and pesky small birds notwithstanding, an osprey’s life seems a good one.

Under the heading of “Anything worth doing at all will take at least a tiny modicum of effort” I categorize most of life’s pleasures.

Interested in seeing the 10,000-foot view of how far inland the eroding shoreline has reached? Take a look in Google Maps at the end of Bay View Avenue near Lazy Point, Amagansett.

What the community gets for the money it spends on libraries is impressive indeed.

Non-adventures with a sofa-loving rescue pup.

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.

How do you get from Covid to the tax cap? Consider what will be lost if sharp cuts have to be made to the school budgets in East Hampton.

When I wake from dreams, I feel quite peaceful, like the way I felt after my last colonoscopy.

I am happily a morning person, but birds tend to get annoying as the day goes on.

If I were a car, what kind of car would I be?

When ubiquitous smartphones put a crimp in important proceedings.

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

There have been bitter complaints lately on social media about the trash left behind after soccer matches, softball games, and pickup basketball in our East Hampton parks.

Two columns in one: from Palm Springs to NPR’s Uri Berliner.

Here on the narrow end of Long Island between the bays and the ocean, the chill lingers longer than elsewhere. Plant carefully.

What we did in April 1985 at Columbia University was righteous. 

The kerfuffles surrounding the Hedges and Huntting Inns in East Hampton Village point to a longstanding problem: Old-line businesses that do not conform with zoning laws are getting bigger.

“Government do take a bite, don’t she.”

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.

East Hampton Town has a waiting list of more than 450 people seeking affordable senior citizen housing but only 127 apartments. A proposal to allow 12 housing units per acre might increase the supply by a third.

Montauk is in a rough place with the imminent closing of its sole pharmacy.

To have order imposed on one who hasn’t been used to it, one who does not feel whole unless stacks of sports pages past surround him, can be traumatic.

Newsreaders and culture mavens were delighted this week to learn that Guild Hall has announced that after two years of work the arts institution will raise the curtain on a fully renovated John Drew Theater in July.

This late winter and spring have been wet and wild.

Everything I understand about social class in America I learned at a farmers market summer job.

We’re told by experts that burlap wrap isn’t good for some species, especially evergreens, and that it doesn’t in fact actually keep plants warmer.

Americans, by and large, don’t get together out in the elements much anymore.

Getting hip to women’s college hoops at just the right time.

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