Rye Writes: Choosing the Life You Want, Not the Louche One at Hand

The portrait of heady Wall Street life that Douglas Brunt paints in his debut novel, “Ghosts of Manhattan”, is unvarnished, and accomplished with masterful brushstrokes.

Life-altering events are something Lee Woodruff knows all too closely.

Once upon a walk with our dog, Gracie, I noticed a couple stopped at a traffic light smiling and swooning over us.

I am lucky enough to spend most mornings with a great bunch of Boot Campers, most of whom are moms with a wide age-range of kids.

Most people don’t think about September as a major highpoint for flowering plants. Especially here in Rye, where April through June brings a veritable parade of forsythia, lilacs, bridal wreath, magnolias, hydrangeas, azaleas, rhododendrons, and the like.

Wainwright House, the country’s oldest holistic learning center, was the scene of contemplation and humanitarianism at the seventh annual Healing Arts and Community Fair September 30.