Commentary
The Island lost a truly great soul with Janet Messineo, a legendary fisherperson, amazing artist and a uniquely kind person.
The birth of Jesus is one of the best known stories in the western world.
What is Hanukkah?”
That is how the Talmud opens its discussion of the holiday.
It’s evening time and the deer family awaits me.
I carry their food to the circle of hoof prints
Lying at the foot of Thunder Hill.
There was no text on Christmas. Nothing on New Year’s Day. Or on my birthday. No back and forth the night of the Super Bowl. Or when the Boston...
America is a chameleon / Forever adapting, morphing / Caught between what it is / And what it yearns to be / “Isms” coexist with dogmas.
My family and I first visited Martha’s Vineyard 16 years ago. At the time, we had two young children: one and three years old.
There’s no crying in football. We beat ‘em on the Vineyard. We beat ’em on Nantucket. We almost beat ’em in Boston.
During most of the 1970s it was a Vineyard ritual. Many of us spent Thanksgiving day with family and friends. Then Saturday came along and it was off...
People often say they love to play ping-pong. Fine, but let’s get up to date.
A month ago, I received an email I never expected. As I read it, I felt the hair rise on the back of my neck.
My first chat with Ginny Jones was a long one, as they all were, for Ginny didn’t do small talk.
