Joe heads to RIT today

Joe and I are driving up to Rochester Institute of Technology later today, as he starts his five year co-op electrical engineering program. We are actually stopping in Cortland tonight and will get to the campus Wednesday morning. Joe will rightly be delighted to be on his own at college, but his mom and dad will … Read more

The Croton drowning death

This was a huge commotion in Croton from about 5:30 onward yesterday. As I was returning from the gym rescue vehicles from Croton and Ossining were pouring into the south end of the Croton train station, where kayaks and canoes are normally launched from. Later on, we turned on channel 12, which had amateur video of … Read more

NYT chief editor Bill Keller compares religious belief with belief “that space aliens dwell among us”

His column is already up online and will be in the NYT Sunday magazine section. Asking Candidates Tougher Questions About Faith The ignorance is embarrassing. A small error (which has since been corrected in the online edition) – he said Rick Santorum, ex-Senator of Pennsylvania and now running for President, was a fervent evangelical. You … Read more

Terrible end to a kayaking trip

I'm posting this because I'd heard Friday evening that a small boy had been plucked out of the Long Island sound, and there was initially no understanding of how he got there. "I saw somebody in the water, which is unusual that far out," Sandomenico told Newsday. "So I turned around, and it turns out … Read more

Recent Read: Third Degree

"Recent" unfortunately being several months ago. As much as I like to do book reviews, I have really fallen off on doing them; just too busy.   This is the fifth installment of my friend Maggie Barbieri's murder mystery/romance/comedy series  about the adventures of college English Professor Alison Bergeron. Here's the review of the first in the series … Read more