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   I was more than confident, I was cocky.     
   It was the first week of October. I was sitting at the weekly East Hampton Star editorial meeting...

   Bedtime comes early this time of the year, or at least we try. I’m up an hour before the kids have to be out of bed to get a couple of ounces of coffee down before trying to...

   That the South Fork is part of the greater metropolitan area rather than the rural place we used to think it was has become almost impossible to deny. You get the message from...

   BookHampton has a daily quiz now, and so I thought why oughtn’t I to have one too.
    Which Shakespearean characters said:
    1....

   “Tashi delek.”
   The words, mumbled while fishing for coins in my pocket, surprise me, though it was I that had uttered them.
    ...

   Sharp criticism greeted the New York Post editors’ decision this week to put a photograph of a man about to be struck and killed by a subway train on the cover of the Tuesday...

   More than 43 million Americans are said to have traveled at least 50 miles to celebrate Thanksgiving, and among them were four members of our family, including two grandchildren, who...

   Mary had been after me to change my voice mail message, which, she said, aside from being boring, was way too long.
    Allen, our neighbor, said, in a message...

    We were stopped in traffic on the way to Sag Harbor a few weeks ago when a car pulled up alongside.
    “Hey,” the driver shouted. “Do...