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Michael DobieNewsday |
Hopes that this new year would enter peacefully were probably always foolish. It's a perennial wish, but one we should acknowledge as more dream...
The holidays are here. And it feels like we need them more than ever. We need their traditions and their rituals, their reliability and their...
We sat down to dinner on a recent Friday night, and with the meal we had a salad. On the salad were tomatoes — from our garden. This was on Nov....
In this past week of political hubbub and hullabaloo, I found myself thinking about Uranus and Pompeii. No, I’m not crazy. Though this doesn’t...
I went to a concert last Sunday night. It was almost election eve, the peak of the great roil that consumes our country every four years — a...
Time speeds up as you get older. We know it intuitively and can prove it mathematically. One year to a 5-year-old is 20% of their lifetime — and...
Did you see the image? It coursed through social media in the wake of Hurricane Helene, and showed a frightened little girl in a motorboat fleeing...
The news, as it often is wont to be, has been loud or gloomy of late. Sometimes both. The presidential election steamrolls forward in all its...
As Hurricane Helene barreled across the Gulf of Mexico, many of us did what we usually do. We watched radar depictions of the storm as it...
In Alaska this week, a man was arrested for threatening to torture and kill six Supreme Court justices. It was a blip on our national news feeds....
My neighborhood lost two more trees this week. That I know of. Both were oaks. One was majestic, a good 100-feet-plus. Looking out from my house,...
Butch and Suni are lost in space. OK, “lost” is a little harsh for what’s happening to NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni”...
Before we get too far into August, can we take a moment to recall July? Even by our modern firehose-of-news standards, it was one of the craziest...