Commentary
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...
The following was submitted as testimony for the Martha’s Vineyard Commission public hearing on its development of regional impact checklist.
The...
A year ago I was in Cuba. I have been reminded of my visit by a picture a fellow traveler has just sent showing me readying to puff a Cuban cigar....
I appreciate the response from Camron Adibi. Yes, let’s all keep thinking and talking about this issue, so vital to our economy and our health....
Rule number one: An islander does
not ask another islander over for dinner. We already know far too much about each other to open ourselves up to the...
I first wrote about Connie last January in the Oak
Bluffs town column. Something unusual, actually supernatural, had happened between Connie and me,...
Water. It is a key to life. At times it is our ally. Other times it is our adversary, as was the case for many during and after Hurricane Sandy. The...
They came from all over the mainland and descended on us. What made this a first was that the Island was the setting. Over 30 years of Thanksgivings...
For my wife Cathlin’s last day of radiation treatment for breast cancer, the kids and I head into Boston to be with her. Eirene, aka Pickle (age four...
