While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.

Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

History is the narrative of people searching for a place to go.

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.

Your best is whatever you can do comfortably without having a breakdown.

While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us.