Two of my favorite pastimes are reading and eating, and, after years of trial and error, I have discovered the happy coincidence that I can do both at the same time.
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7/2/14
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Wilson School recently completed its annual PTA-sponsored Read-a-thon.
Over a two-week period, Wilson students read more than 41,000 minutes. The students who raised the most money in their …
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5/15/13
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Recently I sent a very dear friend a Kindle copy of Louise Erdrich’s most recent novel, “The Round House.”
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1/3/13
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It is said that there are only two stories: Boy Meets Girl or A Stranger Comes to Town. The runaway best-selling trilogy “Fifty Shades of Grey” is both of these and then some.
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6/7/12
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The market is down, oil prices are up, the Arab world is imploding and I have this annoying pain in my shoulder. What to do but pick up a good book?
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6/10/11
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Humbled and honored, Oceanside Summer Gazebo Readings founder Tony Iovino received the Long Island Writers’ Guild Community Service Award last Sunday at Manor East in Massapequa.
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Tom Steinert
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12/8/10
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This summer, a wave of reading is again washing over Rockville Centre. The public library’s annual summer reading programs are officially under way, with more than 100 children and teen volunteers already signed up.
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Katherine Kollitides
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7/14/10
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Even though multitasking is king, there are so many things we can’t do at the same time: drink a martini and ride a roller coaster, text and take a shower, watch a movie and mow the lawn, run a marathon and flip pancakes.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/24/10
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Junior Girl Scouts from Hewitt Troop 804 invited children ages 3 – 6 to join them for “Kids Read to Kids,” a one-time program the girls designed as part of their work toward earning their …
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6/9/10
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Watson Elementary School may be one of the smaller schools in Rockville Centre, but there wasn't anything small about the amount of money its community raised to benefit the Red Cross International …
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3/10/10
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