This is school break week. Many families headed for America, on a working boat, of course. I’m proud to be with the staycation crowd.

How about that baseball game Tuesday night? My friends in New York are reeling. Great way to start the season. Go Sox.

It seems hard to look forward to spring but perhaps by Tuesday, April 17 we shall.

If this chilly weather keeps up my Easter bonnet is going to be a knitted Patriots watch cap with a pompom on top.

We all know the drill by now. Bread, milk, toilet paper. Shower now in case we lose heat. Run dishwasher, clothes washer, dryer now before we lose electricity. Charge your cell phones and check your flashlights. I feel like I am camping again.

The fallen trees are not all chopped up yet, the basements barely dry, and here comes another one? Wild winter here.

Monsoon season continued But as I write this on Wednesday I think we are coming out of it. Sunny, warmer, and windy.

I have started this column five times now. Any sentence seems so shallow.

I did not realize Martha’s Vineyard had a monsoon season.

What an exciting Super Bowl. I think we are used to Tom Brady pulling a rabbit out of a hat.