Commentary
The mice were back. The other night I watched in peeved frustration as the scrabbling noise behind my tiny dorm-sized fridge grew louder until...
Summer seems in the distant past as the New Year approaches, yet some of us are still thinking about the wildlife that frequents the Vineyard in the...
Cruising around
in the pre-Christmas sky
St. Nick and his reindeer always fly
Over the waters of Vineyard Sound,
Over the ocean where the waves pound...
On behalf of a little baitfish that’s not consumed by humans, it was amazing to witness 350-plus fishermen gathered in a Baltimore hotel conference...
Christmas is a time for sharing, and with that in mind, it’s been a holiday tradition for me to share with you my obsession with all things shellfish...
Some Jews celebrate Hanukkah and only Hanukkah, and my red-and-green tasseled hat goes off to them. But others of us come from either mixed heritage...
Children are everything to this island. It doesn’t matter if there are just one or two, or as many as eight or nine, a place is set at every table at...
I grew up in a household where no one got better at anything. No one practiced anything. No one started a project, no one finished a project. No one...
When my kids were young and I was in a mother’s support group, the question of telling your children about Santa came up. There were the realists,...
At dusk, one by one,
hundreds of gulls fall
out of the leaden sky
onto the lake, already
beginning to close
its lid for winter.
We call them
by their...
I was worried. What had I gotten myself into? I was moving to Martha’s Vineyard to become a deejay on WMVY. I knew about WMVY. I knew its prestigious...
A few weeks ago I was making coffee when I heard what sounded like a stunned owl hoo-ing for help. Sounded as if he might be trapped behind a storm...
