Connie Berry
Cold night, hot vanilla
Imagine my disappointment when I discovered last night that I’m not the only person who makes hot vanilla. I thought for sure I made...
Vineyard voices
After 18 months of not singing together, the Island Community Chorus is ready to perform its first holiday concert since 2019. The chorus is...
Have Faith: Knocking on the door
As I'm writing this, I’m thinking about Nancy Slonim Aronie's column, “Writing from the Heart,” which you'll find in this week's edition of The...
Mandoline misgivings
A while back I wrote about my fear of puff pastry; today I add to that list: the kitchen mandoline, that incredibly sharp apparatus...
Have Faith: Born again
Sometimes I get caught up in phrases or terms that we see used in Christianity. This weekend I had a little hang-up about being...
Have Faith: An unflappable leader
A lot of folks know Peter Boak as the fearless leader of the Island Community Chorus, but he's also been music minister at the...
Let’s talk about kale
I may have already let this slip, but I never tasted kale until I moved here almost 10 years ago. Guilty as charged. I...
Have Faith: Walking to end hunger
It's CROP Walk time again, folks, and we even have a closing ceremony this year. Join everyone on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 17, at 2:30...
Have Faith: Music moves us
I made my first trip to the First Baptist Church in Vineyard Haven last Friday night to listen to some Christian music. What a...
History lessons
Abigail McGrath is a ball of fire, so it's no surprise she's embarking on a new project. Her “Hidden Heroes,” a series of plays...
Have Faith: Meet the Rev. Dr. Robert Hardies
My fascination with the Unitarian Universalist Society is based half on its New England history and the other half on a film I watched...
Have Faith: Sharing the faith
It's not easy being a parent and it's not easy getting your children to go to church once they reach a certain age. When...
A win-win at Winston’s Kitchen
If you want to try Winston's Kitchen next to Our Market on the Oak Bluffs Harbor, might I suggest giving yourself a little time....
Mason’s new music
If you've been waiting for a new Willy Mason album to drop, you're in luck. “Already Dead,” produced by Noel Heroux, releases August 6....
Have Faith: Surviving and thriving
The Little Children of Mary, a faith-based local organization whose mission is to work for peace however they can and to support those in...
Have Faith: Saying goodbye, for now
Being a priest isn't like being a dentist. Dentists can retire someday, stop pulling teeth and looking at X-rays. Priests, on the other hand,...
Have Faith: Waiting on God
My patience went out the window a long time ago, and I'm still waiting for its unlikely return. I think my whole family might...
Arts for everyone
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Featherstone Center for the Arts, located on the old Stevens family farm in Oak Bluffs. It has...
Domestic Disturbances: I just can’t do it
Last summer everybody and their brother worked diligently on how to plant, harvest, and preserve their own vegetables because we thought the end of...
The best is yet to come
“I'm in Taylor, Mississippi, population 343, plus me,” Jack Sonni laughed when I asked him where he was living these days in a phone...