Opinion

Mary said she was excited to hear that I was making Lidia’s roasted eggplant with ziti and ricotta tonight, testimony, I suppose, to the depths of ennui we’ve plumbed — plum tomatoes are in the recipe too — since Emily and the kids left for Ohio, leaving us to marvel on our own at the glowing light she sees caressing us here.

Time is the priceless container of all we have, and, after all, it will get used up eventually. For those of us who are not young, it feels like a cheat — a blank in what is left of our time.

Governor Cuomo should have been ousted from the Executive Mansion a year ago.

Questioning the value of offshore wind based on maintenance issues with the first United States project is a stretch.

Signs of the coming change of season come too soon for my taste.

Either you love carnivals and fairs or you loathe them.

A veritable tsunami of coffee in a decades-old thriller sets a grateful reader to thinking.

I was thinking the other day, walking in our neighborhood, that we were blessed by God; later, our daughter Emily, who lives in Ohio, told us why.

Ah, the competition and camaraderie of hoops.

If there was any doubt before that Andrew M. Cuomo should no longer be governor of New York, a scathing report this week from the state attorney general’s independent investigation into his pattern of serial sexual harassment of women should have erased it entirely.

Landscapers’ trucks are everywhere — and getting bigger.

I have been spending a lot of time aboard Cerberus this summer, though not as much of it sailing as I would have liked.