My holidays are all about food. In truth, my life is about food. Forget the gifts and give me the delicious fare and heavenly aromas that...
This was no vegetarian’s delight. Unpacking my bag of farm produce last week, I found that it contained more than this vegetable lover bargained...
American author and critic Pamela Hansford Johnson could have been inspired by a Vineyard sunset when she enthused, “The sky broke like an egg into...
It is easy to make rash judgments when the subject is poison sumac.
It is nuts that we went from feast to famine. Last year, you may remember, there was a bumper crop of acorns that fell in your yard, on your...
“There are two types of people; those who eat kale and those who should.” Bo Muller-Moore, to whom this quote is attributed, is a nutritional...
If you are reading this column, then Don Yeomans was correct. Yeomans, a senior research scientist at NASA, last week assured the public that a...
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Cold, stunned and stranded describes more than just the Vineyarders who got stuck on or off-Island in last weekend’s storm. There was another...
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Eat, drink and be scary is good advice on Halloween. To terrify others is perhaps the best suggestion I can give you if you consider what could...
Trudy Taylor of Aquinnah has a "hole" lot going on. She called last Saturday morning with an inquiry about a houseplant harasser. It seems that...
Colorful harvest festivals are one marker for the arrival of autumn, but for me the surest sign that fall is here is the number of days I spend...
“Will you walk into my parlor?” said the Spider to the Fly; “Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you did spy.” The webs of funnel web...

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