As summer ended, Ryan took the middle-aged car to the mechanic to make sure it was road worthy.
He ...
Author: Denis Hamill
I was at Woodstock.
Which made one of my young journalism students remark, “So, did you fight for...
Ideas do grow on trees.
Consider the apple, a low-hanging fruit of invention.
Sir Isaac Newton cam...
Gay Talese doesn’t have a cold.
Gay Talese has pneumonia.
Well, the celebrated author of the tim...
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He turned his head and his life had spun around.
Ryan sat in the passenger seat and realized that h...
Okay, now I’m rooting for dirty water.
Dump your toxic waste into the waters of Coopers Beach, ju...
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I’m taking a pass on any new passwords.
I was early for a lunch meeting so I sat on a railing nea...
Ryan’s youngest son Rory sent him a text from his upstate college.
“Happy Birthday, Dad, hope y...
I met The Pol and his girlfriend in the Hamptons 40-odd summers ago.
I was a Brooklyn kid who didn...
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When I felt th...
With St. Patrick’s Day marching our way, it is a good time to remember that being Irish is more th...
Plop.
It started with a single drop of water.
It fell from the ceiling behind the wet bar in Ryan...
This film resurrects a bygone era to lasting life.
Forgive my personal connection here, but I think...
What a load of hot air.
As the nation remained divided by The Wall, here on the East End the discou...
By midnight, January 1, I’d made my resolution list and decided to follow our fearless American le...
No one suffers from the war on Christmas more than Santa.
In the past 40 years, Santa has watched h...
They made Thanksgiving great again.
Two of his children had not broken bread at the same table in s...
This time it was 12 shot dead in a college bar in Thousand Oaks, California.
Freshly re-elected Con...