Through the Eyes of a Child

A few weeks ago, I took my 5 year-old daughter and 2 1/2 year-old son on a hike at Teatown Lake Reservation in Ossining. If you haven’t been, you’re missing […] Read more »

Take Me Out To The Fire Station

Months before my two-and-a-half year-old spoke his first coherent English word, he, like all toddlers, had his own language. One of the first things he said regularly (and repeatedly) was […] Read more »

Think Green to Save Green

I don’t need an incentive to be green. I’m green for green’s sake. I drive a hybrid, use my own canvas bags at the store, recycle with a vengeance, own […] Read more »

Grading the Playgrounds

Sun. Temperatures above freezing. Green on the ground. Spring has arrived. Now that Old Man Winter has been defeated and has fled, your kids are no doubt aching to get […] Read more »

Democracy is not a Spectator Sport

I’m an Election Inspector. You know those folks who sit at the cafeteria tables on election day, check your name against a big book, point you towards the voting booth, […] Read more »