In The Media
NAMI NYS Perspectives, Interview with Andrew Malekoff of North Shore Child & Family Guidance Center, April 27, 2020
https://youtu.be/a60Jf66POJs
Lesson from the Past Can Help Us Now, by Andrew Malekoff, Anton Media, May 27, 2020
When I was 10 years old, I discovered a thick folder in a box at my home in New Jersey. I twirled the string that held the flap secure and pulled out the contents—a cache of newspaper articles dating back to the mid-1930s. The articles were from the Newark Star...
Every Day Is Memorial Day, By Andrew Malekoff, Blank Slate Media, May 24, 202
As I write this on the morning of May 25, 2020, I’m struck by what a different Memorial Day this is compared to what we have become so accustomed to. For the most part, there are no large gatherings on the beach; no parades led by high school bands; no throngs of...
Bingo for a Cause Supports the Guidance Center
Roslyn Heights, NY, May 14, 2020 —When a group of longtime Syosset friends decided to come up with some fun ways to hold virtual get-togethers, the idea popped into their heads with one word: BINGO! The couples—Alex and Leslie Arker, Jen and Neil Gallow and...
Astonishing COVID-19 numbers for U.S., New York and Long Island, by Andrew Malekoff, Blank Slate Media, May 16, 2020
I celebrated my birthday on May 14 in the year of COVID-19. My wife Dale and I usually go out with friends for our birthdays. Obviously, that wasn’t happening this year. So, we ordered in from one of our favorite Italian restaurants. I had baked ziti and Dale had...
Guidance Center on News 12 Long Island, Featuring Andrew Malekoff
https://youtu.be/pzUPhgVKy28
Give Yourself – and Your Kids – a Break
LIBN Column April 15, 2020, By Jenna Kern-Rugile Rumor has it that Shakespeare wrote King Lear during the plague. So, how’s working at home during our modern day plague going for you? Social media and other sources are replete with articles about how you can use your...
Checking the Coronavirus Box Score, Published in Blank Slate Media, By Andrew Malekoff
As a child growing up in New Jersey in the 1950's and 60's, one of my favorite things to do when school let out for the year was to get up, ride my bike to the candy store, meet up with friends, pick up a newspaper and check out the baseball box scores from the...
A Quarantine Trendsetter, By Andrew Malekoff, Anton Media, April 13, 2020
In my February column, I wrote about the fact that I had a stem cell transplant in early December 2019, about a month before I heard for the first time about the coronavirus. The transplant entailed getting an unrelated donor’s stem cells to replace mine; then, if all...
Strength In Diversity, By Andrew Malekoff, Anton Media, February 16, 2020
In my August 2019 column titled “Thank You,” I expressed my gratitude for the cancer researchers and practitioners who have been instrumental in getting me through the last 10 years of my life. As I explained, my cancer was responsive to treatment, but it was...