By Carrie Jacobson
Kaja, the big red dog, must figure out how to rescue Zoe, who’s trapped on an island in the rain-swollen Delaware.

By Beth Quinn
I know how I’m going to die. A woman driver on a cell phone is going to kill me while I’m out for my morning power walk. I feel like a traitor to my own kind for saying that, and I may be asked to turn in my Feminist Union Card, but it is true.

By Michael Kaufman
My wife and children made fun of me for watching the Korean soap opera. Then they got hooked too.

By Bob Gaydos
Roman Polanski was thrown in jail by the Swiss of all people. Tom Delay is on TV doing the tango of all things. Somewhere in all this, there’s justice, but you really have to look for it.

By Carrie Jacobson
As summer winds into fall, the fields are coming alive with autumn’s bright and burnished colors. Here, mule ears bloom an astonishingly brilliant yellow in a low, swampy marsh.

Photography by Rich Gigli
DAWN’S EARLY LIGHT – Dawn’s early light brings forth a mystical silhouette of the World War I memorial statue, sculpted by the renowned Paterson artist, Gaetano Federici (1880-1964). The bronze statue is mounted on a granite block at Westside Park, Paterson, N.J.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
An historic depiction of corn husking in the late 1800s. A pastel painting on view at the Wallkill River School.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
The chill of fall is upon us and creeping into our homes. But before you turn up the thermostat, consider winterizing your home to use the heat more efficiently.

By Bob Gaydos
What do Fareed Zakaria and Don Presutti have in common? For one thing, my son, Zack, knows who both of them are. That’s no small feat.

By Beth Quinn
Yes, yes, fine. Smoking is bad. But the City of New York is about to go too far with a ban on smoking in parks and on beaches. Don’t do it, city health commissioner! This isn’t about health anymore, and smokers aren’t your kids. It’s not your job to make them stop jumping on the bed even though they might fall down and break their necks.