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THE LITTLES: Do fret the small stuff By Krista Madsen Why are tiny things so compelling? HOLEY MOLEY This week I hosted the fourth biannual Sleepy Hollow Show & Tell for those lucky enough to live within a 10 or so mile radius. For those who don’t, a cutesy re... More »
By Autumn Zara– Sleepy Hollow, a renowned trick-or-treating destination, will finally get its own candy shop on June 13. Film industry veteran Kate Bolger is opening The Village Confectionery at 95 Beekman Avenue. When we first met at Sleepy Coffee Too, Kate w... More »
MOTHERLESS: Part 1, Where do you we begin By Krista Madsen I wasn’t going to write about this yet because the shock isn’t done percolating in me into a cohesive topic. The story that CNN exposed of the corner of the website, Motherless.com, where men come to s... More »
DEATH BY DISTRACTION: Your device is conspiring to kill you By Krista Madsen “In my day…” as many a person of my age might begin a bad but braggy story, death by drinking was the thing. Teens, who seemed to have their licenses way too soon, were drinking and d... More »
EARTH CHASE: Hunting energy vampires By Krista Madsen Earth Month has been an amazing road trip thanks to this Rivertown Scavenger Hunt I’ve been overly consumed by for the last few weeks. I got a late start to my region’s little competition on its accompanyi... More »
FURRIES ARE FOLLOWING ME: Be Beast By Krista Madsen Furries are following me around the world. On my recent family trek around Nordica, my girl-teens and I came upon a gaggle of them—what would you call a group of Furries when they hail from all sorts of speci... More »
By Elizabeth Tucker– Along with seasonal daffodils, signs have sprouted in front lawns in Philipse Manor, urging “Save Our Streets!” and “No Home Rule!” The signs refer to two simultaneous actions by the Village of Sleepy Hollow: First, an amendment to parking... More »
THE CLUMSY COMPENDIUM: Don’t run before you can walk By Krista Madsen Rattling around the echo chamber of my “bad memory” are several hollow objects that sound quite tinny. Similarly to those excellent Inside/Out Pixars, it’s the most embarrassing, most disast... More »
GROSS NATIONAL: How semi-socialism can make you happy By Krista Madsen If, in a mere essay, I can bravely take on the overwhelming concept of patriarchy vis-à-vis the Epstein files, how about daring to endorse the word no one doth utter in the US, the dread s-... More »
GOLD MEDAL GIRLS: And the Pageant of Pulchritude By Krista Madsen Between traveling and preparing for traveling, I missed all of the Winter Olympics save for a few clips that bubbled up and pervaded the zeitgeist. Enter: Alysa Liu, US figure skater winning the... More »
NORDIC BUNS: A happy slappy history By Krista Madsen When I book a vacation, I often try to plan around festivals, eccentric events, even moon cycles and off-path oddities worth a detour. Such as my road trip to White Sands, New Mexico that very much depended ... More »
CHASING WINDMILLS: They might be literary giants By Krista Madsen Of all the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future that haunt Trump (Obamas anyone?), he seems to reserve the greatest terror for windmills. And of all the rabbit holes he loves to spelunk ... More »
PUBERTY IN HIDING: When normal things happen under extraordinary circumstances By Krista Madsen Of all the news you can punch a wall and/or cry about lately, this one really got me. On NPR, the story of a pre-teen girl who gets her period for the first time. M... More »
FIRST PLACE, LAST PICKLE: Don’t touch that trophy By Krista Madsen I desperately require some comic relief. Mind you, I like my comedy flirting with existential dread in the vein of Waiting for Godot and a good glob of what’s-it-all-aboutism, so what more perf... More »
