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,...

Susan Slotnick In 1978 I was riding with my girlfriend down Route 9 on the way back from Marshall’s in...

Susan Slotnick “Whistle while you work!” -- Snow White   For the past 19 years, I have resided for two...

Convicted felons released from prison, men of color from the inner city dancing together with white teenage girls and one...

Susan Slotnick My father had only one employee for 40 years. His name was Sam. We never heard his last...

Susan Slotnick Travel worn and exhausted, we pulled into the capital of Iran at 11 a.m. on March 4, 1970....

Susan Slotnick Hours after the massacre of 20 small children by a young mentally challenged gunman, (Friday night Dec. 16),...

Susan Slotnick Unlike Jerry Sandusky, Arnold Friedman, the subject of the Academy Award-nominated film Capturing The Friedmans, was a pedophile...