Do you have a blog? If so, you may want to join the blog action day campaign, which will take place on October 15th. This year's theme is poverty. (Last year's was the environment.) The idea is to focus the conversation in as many blogs, video blogs and podcasts as possible on that day on the subject of poverty. So, for example, I'll be writing a post about some aspect of poverty as it relates to Sag Hampton. The Blog Action Day organizers explain their motivation thusly:   more »

Yikes! This is serious. The Sag Harbor Cinema is for sale. There's nothing more iconic in Sag Harbor than the Sag Harbor Cinema, the art-house theater that's been a part of the local scene for decades. Just look at all the fuss that arose when my fellow Sag Harborites thought they were losing the theater's sign! Now, it seems, we may be in danger of losing the entire theater and ...   more »

Sometimes I get an idea, and at first blush it seems like a world beater. Fortunately, I'm a bit of a procrastinator, so I usually don't act on these brilliant insights immediately. Usually, over the next few days, I'll share this idea with friends or colleagues, and they gently (or sometimes not so gently) point out the the things I've ...   more »