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

Everyone is still here and I'm still swearing in my car. I always get excited when September rolls around. As a kid, going back to school...

The laws of the beach are simple and finite. Friends of this column might remember that last August, I invented a game, Tracy’s Beach...

My golf game is bananas. I’ve been playing golf for fifteen years and I stink. I’m so bad people make excuses for me. When I fail to chip...

I have a thing for toilet paper. Longtime fans will remember that in my first Tilting at Windmills column, I admitted I was hoarding...

The chipped Dansk Christianshavn mug. As a preface, I just want to say how grateful I am. My family is safe. We are all comfortable and...

The FLP in all her glory. At the start of the lockdown, one of our hockey pucks (as I like to refer to our children) moved back home with...

My to-do list I know a little something about self-isolating. I work from home and, in order to do my job, I’m supposed to stay in my...

Sock it to me, baby. We were invited to a friend’s sixtieth birthday party and the dress code was a 60s theme. On the electronic...

What we need is a good blizzard. Am I the only person who thinks we’ve had more cloudy or rainy days than sunny ones this winter? It’s...

These won't make it to the end of the month. Here we are two weeks into January, and if you’re anything like me, you’ve given up on your...

It's time for a little chestnut roasting. On October 25th, before Halloween, Sirius XM switched its Love station to the Hallmark Channel....

Because one is not enough. Every year, a day or two after Thanksgiving, I nearly incinerate my house while making a sweet potato (yam)...

How hard could it be? The other day, my father came to me and told me his bathroom sink has been leaking “forever.” Until now, I haven’t...

Have you ever dressed up as food? Happy Halloween! It’s pretty exciting to have a column published on Halloween, especially since I...

Westward Ho! I have many feelings about Montauk Highway. The second time I came to the Hamptons, nearly 30 years ago, I was surprised...

Hurrah! Summer's over! I need to vent. Congratulations! Mazel tov! You’ve made it through another summer on the east end. You’ve coped...

The laws of the beach are simple and finite. I stopped going into the ocean a few years ago when, on a supposedly calm day, I got rolled...

This place is so beautiful, why would you ever leave? Last week I did one of the craziest, unheard of things that a person with a house...

Believe it or not, talking is my greatest strength. Whoops! It is swimsuit season again and I forgot to get in shape. I could have sworn...

I tried to let go of my Beta waves. The older I get, the less I want to get wet. I hate to take showers or swim in the pool or the ocean....