Dave’s Desk@Ditch: An Alternative Choice
With the recent elections having come and gone, it has become rather obvious that we as a country, in our
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Composer’s Notes: And Now We Are Here
Well. Now we are here. What does it mean and where do we go? We are still in the grip
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: Casting My Vote for Less Screen Time
Call it what you want, but this past week I came down with what can only be described as a
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: Embracing the Reality of a New Normal
During a recent live radio interview I had with host Gianna Volpe on WLIW (NPR’s Long Island affiliate), one of
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: Becoming Comfortable with Uncertainty
As I was conducting research on another topic last week, I stumbled upon an article in Psychology Today written by
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Citizen Science: How You Can Help Our Local Ospreys
By Aaron Virgin, Vice President, Group for the East End While our towns and cities were locked down and our
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The Value of Interdependence: Preschool Edition
One of many take-aways I’ve come to appreciate during these past several months of social distancing has got to be
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Between the Lines: And So, We Leave D.C. in the Rearview Mirror
So goodbye Golden Brick RoadWhere the fops of Capitol Hill howlI’ve had enough of The White HouseAnd silk-suited dopes on
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Notes from a Pandemic: A Summer of Shifting Sands and Uncertainty
Pictured Above: George Cork Maul gives a Zoom piano lesson. by George Cork Maul The way we live in the
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: Separating the Narrative From the Situation
Until we have actually experienced a particular crisis, can we truly predict how we’ll ultimately react beforehand? For a significant
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Let’s Cook: The “Little Ears” of Italy’s Boot
Very early on in the pandemic, when the news from Italy was still so grim, my partner insisted we stop
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