Reporting in the best town on Long Island. When the editor’s seat opened at the Long Beach Herald in 2008, I jumped from that same position at the Oceanside/Island Park paper to fill it. What was I thinking?
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's classic novel on the Soviet gulag. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
What About The Reds?
Earlier this decade, when my nephew attended Oceanside Middle School, his teachers devoted a month to the Holocaust. He and his fellow eight-graders had to read a book, watch a movie and write several reports on this important subject.
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Integrated Eye for the Confident Guy
Bravo’s “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” features five homosexual men who makeover heterosexual guys. The show is popular, however, not primarily because of its gay-straight dynamic, but because it promotes an important value rarely practiced today.
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My Mom's Invaluable Lesson
My late mother, Rita, showered lots of love on her children, and she expressed her love to me best in a lesson capsulated by the saying "Be your own person."
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September 11, 2001 Memorial in East Meadow NY. (Photo: Joseph Kellard)
Changed By 9/11
Every patriotic American suffered when Islamic terrorists killed nearly 3,000 innocent people on Sept. 11, 2001. I was a reporter then for the Oceanside/Island Park Herald. Although I was deeply outraged and dispirited by this atrocity, the aftermath provided me with invaluable experiences.
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Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino, left, and me in 2000. (Credit: Joseph Kellard)
Open Letter to Dan Marino
Dan Marino, who retired as the most productive quarterback in National Football League history, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, in 2005. I wrote the following letter to the football legend prior to the induction ceremony.
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