By Carrie Jacobson
I live with cats and, by and large, they tolerate me.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
“Fallow Fields” is a pastel of Benedict Farm painted during the winter. The painting incorporates dramatic winter skies and dark rich purples and yellows. You can see more of my work and other Orange County artists at the Wallkill River School in Montgomery.

Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886.
THERE IS A SOLITUDE OF SPACE
There is a solitude of space,
A solitude of sea,
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be,
Compared with that profounder site,
That polar privacy,
A Soul admitted to Itself;
Finite Infinity.

By Michael Kaufman
Results of a new Harris poll reveal just how successful the hatemongers of the far right have been in influencing the thinking of rank-and-file Republicans.

By Jeffrey Page
Put Ronald Reagan’s picture on the $50 bill? That would be an affront.

by Shawn Dell Joyce
We may not be able to do much about taxes, or the economy, but one thing we can do is lower our cost of living thanks to a program started and run by Montgomery resident Alice Dickinson.

By Carrie Jacobson
I’ve made a vow this spring to smile more, to accept more, to give and forgive and in relationships, to be willing to settle for “good enough.”

AFTERNOON OF A FAWN – And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. – The Book of Genesis 1:024

By Bob Gaydos
Having recovered from “inchoate,” I summon the energy to venture back into The New York Times Magazine column On Language. Big mistake.

By Jeffrey Page
A $50-million-man has a problem with the concept of economic justice.