Gail Gardner
Edgartown: Endless gray weather
All of this rain is starting to make me feel like a wet rag! I’m taking solace in the fact that the temperatures are...
Edgartown: Parenthood
I feel a sense of contentment this evening as I write. My boy has been away all weekend for his annual Naval Sea Cadets...
Edgartown: Back from April break
Welcome back from April vacation, to those of you who were on break. It was nice to have the week off, but as usual,...
Edgartown: Seeing the good
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend last weekend. Easter brought with it beautiful weather, many open businesses, time with friends and family,...
Edgartown: Finally spring
Finally! A spring day, or at least a day that felt almost like spring. The sun was shining today, and the temperature was warm....
Edgartown: Felix Neck’s Citizen Science season
Sorry I missed you all last week! I was feeling a bit under the weather, and just could not muster the strength to sit...
Edgartown: Happy spring
Spring is here. On the calendar anyway. The temperatures outside don’t really attest to this fact, but I hear that warmer weather is coming...
Edgartown: This too shall pass
We spent another long day up at Boston Children's Hospital last Friday with Miss Amelia, as we begin to hopefully wind up what has...
Edgartown: Congrats to Avery Simmons
I am writing this week’s column as the clock ticks down on February school vacation, which, for me, was productive rather than tropical. We...
Edgartown: Daffodil time
While I know that these unseasonably warm temperatures are bad news for the world in terms of global warming, I sure have been enjoying...
Edgartown: Spring is in the air
I hope you have enjoyed this wonderful little respite from winter that we’ve experienced the past few days. The temperatures have risen, the sun...
Edgartown: Can it be summer already?
OK. I’m willing to admit I’m sick of winter. I realize it has been a very mild, easy winter, and though I am a...
Edgartown: History was made
Well, there’s certainly no other way to start this week’s column than by discussing the amazing, historic, and record-breaking Patriots Super Bowl victory on...
Edgartown: Getting older
I managed to hurt myself last week. In a true sign of the aging process, I don’t know exactly what I did or when...
Edgartown: Rise dance team
I love when I get my greatest lessons and revelations from my children. They teach me so much. I’m writing this from the back...
Edgartown: Life with the ferry
Having gone away for the weekend, I’m writing this as I return on the boat and as I sometimes do, I’m pondering how our...
Edgartown: Grateful for friends
This week I shared some information with a loved one about my friends. It is something that I haven’t necessarily spent a lot of...
Edgartown: New Year's
Happy 2017! I hope everyone was able to enjoy some vacation time or days off over the past week or so, and that everyone...
Edgartown: A shiny new year
This weekend brought another loss in the celebrity world with the death of singer George Michael. 2016 started off rough musically with the loss...
Edgartown: Enjoy the fresh winter air
Sundays are not my best day. I always seem to have a giant to-do list for my weekends, and the weekend days don’t always...