We’ve been hit with a pandemic, just as many of us have feared would happen. It’s been worldwide. It’s still...

I’ve always known it takes Herculean ego to accomplish major feats, to reach that level of success. You can rise,...

We were all inching apart before Covid. The husband’s new since last September. The nephew and his girlfriend are beginning...

We spent several days sleeping in an orange grove in Trapani, home town of the man who wrote Pinocchio, then...

Driving out Wittenberg Road from Woodstock for our dinner reservation, we zipped by an overgrown driveway. In the driveway was...

I've started noticing the way my friends live, especially those following artsy paths. I found the courage to ask them...

I hear a growing number of towns have citizen pandemic patrols. Some jeer at such fears, but wallow within their...

My parents were born during the Great Depression. They passed this fact on in stories, habits, and objects. Until her...

Woodstock has lost one of the beloved characters that have defined the town for generations. Puppy John, born and raised...

The woman could make a friend of anyone. She knew the old families throughout Ulster, who dated who when, and...

I’d sensed rain’s power when I was young. At the moment the 1969 Aquarian Festival in Bethel became a mudpit,...

A dinner date was arranged at La Coupole, the grand old Montparnasse brasserie. Enter all the Rolling Stones minus Bill...

I’ve not been exercising as I should. I blame the complex web of deadlines I tend to build around me,...

The Tulsa setting resonates even more now that the show’s unleashed a reprisal of that dark moment in our history....

The week before politics pushed Covid to the side, another of our kid’s friends created a minor contretemps when he...

“We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I’ve...

Catskill Art Supply has been a hangout on Woodstock’s Mill Hill Road to several generations of artists. Its Uptown Kingston...

In the library, patrons take out the maximum number of DVDs they're allowed, ten per day. They gravitate towards genres...

Once, play was play, and work a distant goal. College had changed that for me for good, allowing for play...

I went to several camps as a kid. My best, an artsy socialist work camp in Vermont, opened my eyes...