Commentary
Who am I without you? I can’t be the only widowed person who finds this question sneaking into my consciousness from time to time.
Lately I’ve been watching a lot of All Creatures Great and Small. The PBS series is in its fourth season and ranks high on my list of not-so-guilty...
Why Black History Month
Were it not for slavery
There would be no
Black History Month
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Or a Malcom X
No Barack Obama
Our...
I appreciate the technical, legal and subjective arguments over managing Chappaquiddick beaches to accommodate responsible over-sand vehicle (OSV)...
Sand scraped against the blades of our ice skates as we headed out into the middle of Squibnocket Pond.
Martha's Vineyard is famous for eerie coincidences, some touching luminaries who live here.
In the evening the turkeys put themselves to bed. I take in the sight at the West Tisbury graveyard, my car parked at the side of the sharp curve in...
It may be that after more than 25 years, the idea of some freight service to the Vineyard coming through New Bedford (bypassing Falmouth) could...
I know it is unpopular, but I am a lifetime lover of snow.
Everybody here has a gig, sometimes two or three. They are craftsman, artists, master chefs, farriers, healers or visionaries. But what was I?
One winter I rented a house, high on a hill in Chilmark, overlooking the Atlantic. The sun came and went. The ocean changed from grey to green to...
It doesn’t happen often, at least not away from a harbor, but there are times when chance favors a meeting between well-traveled sailors when they...
