Commentary
When Isaac Newton introduced the universal law of gravitation, he wasn't just explaining why apples fall from trees.
I was somewhat dismayed Monday evening of last week. I had just left the Radio Farm stage after singing and playing my acoustic guitar.
Aced the driver's test --
I have lived 79 years and if I didn’t wake up tomorrow no one would say I died young.
When I arrived in Livingstone, Zambia last March, I did not realize it would not be like other visits.
I see you Gus
in the eyes of the Snowy Owl
as it wings by windshield high
On July 4 at the Tabernacle, I joined two dozen neighbors in reading Frederick Douglass’ speech, What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July, which he...
After a jolly family supper at my daughter's, I strolled home down a dirt road at twilight.
The Lost Letters from Martha’s Vineyard by Michael Callahan, Mariner Books 2024, 304 pages, $30.
I have noticed, when facing various situations that have multiple possible outcomes I tend to ruminate on the negative possibilities.
It was one of those days that had me wishing the pain others carry didn’t touch me so deeply. Driving along a beach road, the scent of rosa rugosa...
A few years ago, I was chatting with my mother, who is now 97, at her house on Menemsha Pond in Chilmark. At that point, the egrets on the Pond and...
