One of my favorite birthday-related sayings is "Love the giver more than the gift."

Family recipes, handed down from generation to generation, are served with love.

It was just lying there, begging me to pick it up and do something with it.

May the new year bring you 365 wonderful opportunities.

The holiday season can bring chaos, disorder and what feels like the lawlessness of the old and wild west.

Traveling: it can be done as simply as stopping by the Chilmark Library and walking out with a heap of books from their book sale.

Rather than continuing my start-stop failed attempts at poetic prose, I will just write from the heart and not worry about how the words flow.

Deb Hancock and Patrick Echlin hit the ball out of the park with their ode to Santa at Hancock Real Estate.

I'm not sure if I came up with this saying on my own or, perhaps, I read it somewhere, but like raking the leaves in fall, gathering all the leaves from our family tree is a wonderful experience.

On the fourth Thursday in November, families gather around tables not only to enjoy a bountiful meal but to reflect on the end of the year that draws near.