Below is a collection of my Tilting at Windmills Column from The East Hampton Press and my other articles.

This bison is going to hang prominently in my new beach house. I learned to downhill ski when I was twenty-five. And like all my sporting...

There's nowhere to shop in East Hampton, so I must go to the interweb. I haven’t stopped shopping online since Black Friday. First, it...

That pool was cold! “You’ll get used to it.” I was mumbling that to myself between curse words as I was wading into a 72-degree swimming...

I sleep with the light on. When it comes to most Halloween things, I’m a wimp. Ghosts and ghouls give me nightmares. Halloween...

My Messy Pantry -- It's on my to-do list. The day after Labor Day – known in the Hamptons as “Tumbleweed Tuesday” – I sat down at my...

My email inbox on any given day I’ve been smiling a bit more lately. I have a new joie de vivre . There’s a pep in my step. My joie de...

Sometimes my deadlines come up a little too quickly. Do you ever have a week or a month where your personal life gets so busy you don’t...

The BraBall by Emily Duffy on display at the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Our hockey puck is getting married this...

What are you getting Mom for Mother's Day? Mother’s Day is next week, and I’m thrilled. The hockey pucks don’t live with us right now, so...

My cheerful socks and my recovering knee. For the past six months, I’ve been doing nothing. I didn’t work on my magnum opus. I didn’t...

My Girl Dinner the other night. "Real" Kraft Mac & Cheese I’m going to tell you something that I don’t usually speak of in polite...

My closet, sans-ottoman. When I get an invitation to a party - say, a friend's disco themed 60th birthday party - I want to be the woman...

Do you ever think about the disposal of your body? In the summer blockbuster movie, “Barbie,” Barbie asks, “Do you guys ever think about...

My salad spinner, in my drainboard. Whenever I make a salad, I have only one thought: I hate the salad spinner. I hate cutting up the...

The summer traffic has made me as tired as this old beach bag. So I brought back Beach Blanket Bingo! I heard the following conversation...

Happy Birthday to ME!! Someone had a birthday this week. Can you guess who? It’s me! You were thinking, “It was July 4th, America’s...

The salad bar in my latest hotel's shower. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Life is a journey, not a destination.” Etsy sells this quote on...

Inside this bag is about 15 pounds of my unwanted used skivvies! I recently had a housewifing triumph. I removed grease stains from Mr....

Always Tasty! A few weeks ago, I suffered a partial intestinal blockage and my digestive system stopped working. I’ll spare you the gory...

It's a bit gray here in the East End and I'm sick of it. Did you know that Mr. Hockey, the hockey pucks, and I lived in London for six...