George Bernard Shaw once said, “You see things, and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were and I say, Why not?” For Kimberly Cartwright, founder and owner of the indoor cycling studio Om of Motion, the quotation carries weight.

“Om is my Why not?’” Ms. Cartwright states on her website, omofmotion.com.

This Sunday learn everything you want to know about classic beer as the Martha’s Vineyard Museum offers Pints of the Past at Dreamland in Oak Bluffs on from 1 to 2:30 p.m.
Beer historian and master brewer Christopher Bowen will provide samples of classic beer recipes for the public to taste. He will discuss how beer is made and has changed over time from old England to New England and highlight local New England breweries, too.
Pints from the Past is $15 for museum members and $20 for nonmembers. Reservations are required. Call 508-627-4441, ext. 110.

Eating is crucial to what goes on inside the body. It also has a lot to do with appearance and vitality, too. Skin is bombarded daily with the stressors of pollution, the natural aging process and environment, in particular the sun, cold, humidity and wind. The rate of skin cell damage begins to exceed the rate of repair after about 27 years of age. Poor nutrition accelerates this damage. The good news is that the right nutrition can help.

On Wednesday, St. Andrew’s Church in Edgartown is celebrating spring with their annual May 1 breakfast from 7 to 9 a.m. The event took a two-year hiatus but is back this year to keep the long tradition running. The first breakfast took place over 50 years ago. In 1967 the breakfast cost just 99 cents.

Sometimes it is a subtle thing that brings you back to a certain time and place in your life. All week I have been finding myself thinking of the New Jersey suburb of my youth, though it took me a while to figure out what brought my thoughts back to my hometown of Hazlet.

Managing our expectations has a lot to do with birding. For birders at the bottom of the expertise hierarchy to those at the top, our expectations can help us see a greater variety of birds, or they can hobble our judgment with misleading information. Finding the right border between caution and optimism is one of the intriguing balancing acts of birding, especially when there is some competition in the air, which, let’s face it, can be part of the fun.

I did a lot of gardening this past week for self protection. I seemed unable to resist the temptation of television or radio news following the events of the Boston Marathon bombings. Keep in mind, this column is always a week delayed. Emotionally and spiritually there is no place like outdoors with no technology or media crowding the brain.

When it comes to food, language is never a barrier for Aaron Oster. It’s the reason he became a chef and it’s what has drawn him to Slow Food Martha’s Vineyard. “Everywhere in the world there is a Slow Food group of people who want the same thing.

Construction is scheduled to begin this week on a new liquor store near the airport.

Brion McGroarty, who has operated Town Provisions in downtown Edgartown for 23 years, plans to move the store to a new 2,700 square foot building that will be an addition to the Flatbread Company, a family pizza restaurant on Airport Road.

The following students were named to the dean’s list at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for the fall 2012 semester:

Warren Gowell, Tiffany A. Johnson, William Jurczyk-Villota, Liam McCarthy and Rebecca Tilton of Edgartown; Mitchell Lowe of Oak Bluffs; Marta Azzollini, Conor Boland, Eleanor Hehre, Frederick Hehre IV and Margaretta C. Hehre of Vineyard Haven; and Eliza Greene, Emily Lowe, Will Monast, Lauren E. Petkus and Caitlin Serpa of West Tisbury.