Joye Brown has been a columnist for Newsday since 2006. She joined the newspaper in 1983 and has worked as a reporter, an editor, newsroom administrator and editorial writer. Brown: On Long Island ...

I’ve been seeing this image collection of Root System Drawings around the Internet, and they’re so cool and beautiful I feel compelled to continue sharing them widely. I don’t know much about the ...

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His tail ends in a U shaped prong, and there appear to be spikes along the spine. He wears pleated robes and holds a long staff and a fish, which looks like it may be a weapon made to look like a fish ...