Because mingling our sweat, half naked, in a small space reeking of warm bleach is societally acceptable, sharing intimacies with...

Between the ages of 13 and 20, I was the target of five felonious sexual assaults of varying severity and...

Several years ago while cross-country skiing with my 18-year-old daughter, we came upon an icy patch next to a ledge....

The question concerning prisoner’s rights to vaccinations is one of medical ethics. Who has the right to decide whose life...

I met him when he joined a program I was facilitating in an Ulster County prison. Although he was younger than...

How could I have known what was to come the day the drive over the mountain, through the Hudson Valley...

The old attitude, that women were responsible for what happened to them at the hands of men, was prevalent among...

New Paltz is much more diverse than it was decades ago, has more traffic and tourism. How do residents feel...

Never before in my lifetime, even in the 1960’s, when Margaret Mead said, “was the worst division between Americans we...

When I mixed the oil colors together, all the hues turned out the color of backed-up septic waste. I had...

Thoughts on the allegations against astrologer Eric Francis, who lost jobs with Chronogram, Radio Kingston and the Omega Institute after...

Male predatory behavior is due, in part, to biology. So what do we do?

He painted in a style referred to as Abstract Expressionism and was part of a group of artists known as...

Susan Slotnick Does the worst mass shooting, determined by numbers killed, make this one different, really? The other shootings --...

Susan Slotnick I was helping a new friend with a problem -- a matter of the heart. Her issue was...

Susan Slotnick In 1958, the drug of choice among teenagers was tobacco. In my “crowd,” all the boys smoked Lucky...

"Wow!" I thought. Me, a mediocre student who barely graduated with a 2.25 cumulative average, left back twice in the...

Susan Slotnick For six years I was a natural hygienist. This has nothing to do with cleaning teeth with a...

Susan Slotnick My brother died three years ago. He did not live to see marriage equality prevail, ending triumphantly in...

Susan Slotnick Bob Dylan. He has added his slant on American musical standards to other pop singers like Carly Simon,...