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Red Herring

RED HERRING: Is not an endangered species By Krista Madsen In these dark times, sometimes I enjoy going darker still: like lamenting my personal big bang when scientists declared the universe “open” and all meaning lost. But other moments, in more of a PB&J ki... More »

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This Summer’s Hot New Book? Barbecue!

Shana Liebman’s stunning new cookbook, Barbecue, (her first), which she wrote with Chef Hugh Mangum, features over 270 recipes for grilled and smoked dishes from around the world. It will be published (internationally and in three languages) on May 15. Liebman... More »

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Ectropy

ECTROPY: Fighting the natural disorder of things By Krista Madsen You might think—as the earth rots with the weight of humans on this precarious ball teasing a self-induced armageddon, and, at home, an American dismantling of democracy—that life’s natural tend... More »

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Hundreds Enjoy Annual Duck Derby at Patriots Park

Hundreds of chil­dren and adults turned out at Pa­tri­ots Park in Tar­ry­town Sunday for the 18th annual Ro­tary Club of the Tar­ry­towns’ Duck Derby and the Fam­ily YM­CA’s Healthy Kids Day. The event, which featured six pre­lim­i­nary Derby races and a Grand... More »

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The Elephant in the Room

SCAPEGOAT 2: The elephant in the room By Krista Madsen Since I outed the scapegoats (the animals and others blamed for our human foibles), it would be wrong not to mention the unwieldy unmentionable, that burdensome beast we’re not directly addressing but attr... More »

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SCAPEGOAT

SCAPEGOAT: Or dog, owl, alligator, chipmunk By Krista Madsen Sure, the dog ate your homework, that’s a perfectly legit excuse, but did he strangle your wife to death with a scarf? Probably not. TO THE DOGS In my true crime ramblings, I recently came across the... More »

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Show & Tell: Mayday!

SHOW & TELL: MAYDAY!: “Do me a favor? Make me braver” By Krista Madsen Show and Tell has been an ongoing theme for me in this column, and in life. For what else do we writers do but share in these ways, words paired with an image (literal or evoked). As a word... More »

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Serenity Now!

SERENITY NOW! See the light through the trees By Krista Madsen By miracles (gumption), I traded in my little land upstate for a bigger parcel—for the same price, all of one closing date apart after many months of benumbing bureaucracy and knuckle-biting stagna... More »

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Utility

UTILITY: What does it matter? By Krista Madsen I used to identify as a fiction writer. I only wanted to invent stories not report them, so much so that I spent good money on grad school for an irrelevant creative writing MFA and dropped jobs regularly to perfo... More »

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Saudade

  SAUDADE: No ordinary nostalgia By Krista Madsen I used to brag that I never suffer nostalgia, never long for the past, never desire to go back—always just steamrolling forward toward better prospects and (the hope of) greater wisdom. But I hadn’t yet met the... More »

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Don’t Look at Me

DON’T LOOK AT ME: Over My Dead Body Part 2 By Krista Madsen Remember 100 years ago (a few weeks) when I went on a death bender and gathered all my living wills and dying docs? Well I have more to say on the matter, since I’ve been in a dark yet hopeful place w... More »

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‘Tis of Thee

‘TIS OF THEE: Flags of red, white and blue; cards of green or gold By Krista Madsen I’m increasingly despairing about the wretched State of the (dis)Union, which is to say: I love the United States enough to demand better from her. Patriotism doesn’t mean we c... More »

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I Swear to God

I SWEAR TO GOD: For F*’s sake, Part II By Krista Madsen I’ve noticed I’ve been swearing more lately, and that I’m not alone. That maybe I’m swearing more because I’m drinking from the same global zeitgeist-spigot that has everyone else swearing more. Gone is a... More »

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Bring Your Kids to Work Decade

BRING YOUR KIDS TO WORK DECADE: How Resolute is your desk? By Krista Madsen Plenty of previously professional women talk about the 10-year “mommy gap,” when they drop out of the workaworld (more or less) to raise rugrats—assuming someone in the household could... More »

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Eat Me

EAT ME: Plane crash survivor stories in fact and fiction By Krista Madsen The third season of Yellowjackets—after a long two year wait for most, and short few months for my family who only just discovered this great, gross show recently—released this week on V... More »

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America the Odditorium

AMERICA THE ODDITORIUM: Oh beautiful for spacious skies and penis bones By Krista Madsen Desperately seeking some comic relief, I thought I’d turn a word we’ve heard (or thought we heard) from Trump in his earliest campaign era of 2015 (our salad days when we ... More »

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World-Build (& -Burn)

WORLD-BUILD (& -BURN): Seeing red in the Handmaid’s Tale By Krista Madsen A new Handmaid’s Tale season, the sixth and last, is set for sometime Spring 2025—should we make it that far. Meanwhile, are we already inhabiting this perverted hellscape? Will it be to... More »

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Over My Dead Body

OVER MY DEAD BODY: (Or when Hell freezes over) By Krista Madsen RECRUDESCENCE When authorities spatulated Trump’s treasonous batter off the Capitol’s nooks and crannies four years ago and restored the natural order to a pouty “peaceful transfer of power” there... More »

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Breathe in, Breathe out

BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT: Or vice versa, all things being equal By Krista Madsen BLACK AND WHITE One idea here often leads to another and so it goes for nearly 100 weekly posts in a row when I’m never at a loss for words. Until, well, now. I find myself a littl... More »

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Dark Art of Selection

DARK ART OF SELECTION: Don’t avoid the Void By Krista Madsen KOTATSU Inauguration Day (Jan 20) squats on my mental calendar as a dark mark, a taunting chasm increasing with greater proximity. Into this black hole, anything may fall. Our sanity, our democracy, ... More »

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