I’m just back from a visit to pre-Christmas New York. Fifth avenue was bustling with shoppers. The soaring Norway spruce was up above the skating rink at Rockefeller Center. Grand Central...

Saturday is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I was not there then, but I have two chunks from the wall on the whatnot in my dining room. Both are gifts from an-11-year-old girl...

There is an apple tree in my West Tisbury back yard. It bears no apples because cedar trees line Tiasquam Road and bring with them cedar-apple rust. But underneath the tree, five cats are buried....

Well-wishing neighbors, family and friends streamed in and out of the West Tisbury home of Robert and Maggie Schwartz over the weekend as the couple prepared to move to a new home after 55 years....

On Sunday, I had an unexpected visitor. It was a baby barn swallow that Becky Sanders, who works at the Farm Institute, had nestled in her hand for warmth. She’d found it on the road at...

Some 50 years ago when I first moved to West Tisbury, the late Willis Gifford was a dinner guest one night. He chuckled as he looked down at the aqua and pink ironstone plate in the Singapore Bird...

I like hats. The coat rack in my library holds no coats but is adorned with hats. One informs in Chinese that I have climbed the Great Wall of China. Every once in awhile on a sunny summer day when I...

’Twas Christmas Eve in Tisbury      And trees were all alight St. Nick was coming surely,      The stars were gleaming bright. The Steamship dock...

Benjy Meets Some Wild Animals; Summertime in the Country With Granny and Grandpa by Heidi Schultz. Illustrated by Katrina Nevin. Tisbury Printer. This charming little book about an eight-year-old...

Now that pneumonia shots are being offered at pharmacies, I am asking my doctor to request one for me. It isn’t that I have a cough or sniffles, but it is what I fear lies ahead for me his...