I never thought there would be a post-script, six years later, to a New York Times column I wrote about a dead public servant. But when Charlie Murray, a lifelong Hastings resident, Department of Public ...
Cassandra Arciola and her mother Teresa have lived in Elmsford for 25 years. Her younger brother passed away while serving their country. She wanted Americans to understand the cost of war and realize the ...
I was a speaker at the University of Scouting at Iona Prep in New Rochelle last weekend. The class was developed to help scoutmasters understand the special needs of young men with autistic spectrum disorders ...
We attended a dinner that celebrated young thespians in Westchester County recently. The Random Farms Gala included dinner, dancing, a short show and award presentations. For Peter, that meant loud music, times ...
This is not merely a lament about the regrettable level of technology in our children’s academic lives. Or a pile-on about how all the focus on furnishing their schools with gadgets makes me feel ...
I hear voices. Not like in the movies. And I don't see dead people, but the voices are creepy and dangerous just the same. They speak to me in soft, familiar notes. They are the white noise to my everyday life. ...
Whether you’re a college student or an adult who sort of likes his job and lives in a suburb, you’re going to have neighbors. It’s very important to make a good first impression in order for things to go smoothly ...
Halloween is one of the ways I measure Peter’s progress from year to year. When he was little it was one of those days that totally overwhelmed him. It was filled with sights, sounds and people that did not make ...
Laura Simon, field director of the Urban Wildlife Program's Connecticut Field Office sent this column in response to a column by John Hannan on the use of bow hunting to reduce deer populations in urban and ...
Jan. 1 is the date many companies renew their business insurance. With the renewal season only two months away, businesses should now be reviewing their policies with their brokers.
I fritter away the better part of my free time coaching Little League and CYO basketball. By the standards of modern suburban society, this should make me a secular saint. But as I confessed in an earlier ...
We all marveled when Peter took to skiing without blinking an eye this past winter, so I am not sure why I was surprised when he began riding a friend’s scooter with relative ease.
When I moved to the suburbs from Greenwich Village 12 years ago, I feared mental inertia, grinding physical boredom and the lack of take-out. What I got instead were renegade ...
As the cold weather starts to make its way into the East and the campus begins to don their Uggs and unoriginal black Northface jackets, I often find myself feeling gloomy. With every dark day, it’s easy to ...
When my family goes to Mass, we often stay in the back chapel, which is designated for families with young children. My children are 8, 10 and 13, but because Peter is on the autistic spectrum he regularly finds ...