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...
turtle
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...
pumpkins
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...
Mark Twain had a thing for flies and it was no love affair. Attributed to him are multiple quotes that leave no doubt about how he felt about these...
Americans should be hungry for change. We, do, after all, waste a lot of food. Every day, our country’s discarded food could fill the Rose Bowl...
ring neck snake
Mae West cynically noted that “Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.” An interesting ring coiled around my...
Black walnuts basket
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t. I always do and I enjoy eating them too; there isn’t a nut around that doesn’t entice me....

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