Holly Nadler
Woodside Story: Advice for oldsters
I don’t know if most of the elderly around me are as spacy as I. I’m spacy AF, but I need to add that...
Woodside Story: Romance among the elderly
Let me get this uncomfortable thought out of the way: Death plays a big part in any so-called “happily married” couple making it over...
Woodside Story: Celestial enlightenment?
Sometimes astrology can give us fresh answers for why everything is running amok. It’s def amok, right? And so we’d like to know what...
Woodside Story: Losing folks
This is that sad, sad aspect of getting old that you frankly thought, in your younger, daydreamy years, would never catch up with you....
Woodside Story: Ya feelin’ it yet?
We’ve all come up with different phrases for it: “the beginning of the end”; “the last chapter.”
Here we all are in our “sunset years.”...
Woodside Story: No more hating
Yeah, the two sides of our country’s political struggles find each other, truly, revolting. But this is just the nauseating view developed from watching...
Woodside Story: Pass the readers
I’m here to tell you that some of us still enjoy reading.
All the same, as a lifelong reader, writer, and bookstore owner (Sun Porch...
Woodside Story: The joy of pets
For those of us seniors who love animals — seemingly loving them beyond life itself (come on, admit it, it’s that meaningful) — figuring...
Woodside Story: The boogeyman of old age
It probably wouldn’t matter to us if the only downside to elderliness was, well, to put it bluntly, looking crappy. We do endure that...
Woodside Story: Ancestors
So your mother was an opera singer who married an American G.I., and yet continued to keep her bonds with her arty and famous...
Woodside Story: Strength training
It’s not just kids who dream about being superheroes. I’m thinking everybody at every age would like to be stronger. Tougher. When I was...
Woodside Story: No need to panic
We think we prepare for being old — or, to use a more shuddery word, elderly — but we don’t, do we? We back...
Humor for the holidays
We’re laughing more on the Island, thanks to a comedy producer from Cape Cod, Gary Marino. Dig it! — as Lenny Bruce would have...
Family business
They’ve done it before and, the comedy gods willing, they’ll do it again. Vineyard-based writers and comedians Marty Nadler and his brilliant (if I...
A rollicking read
For all who know and love Gwyn McAllister — the person and her work — here on the Island, particularly her many articles for...
Walden revisited
It’s a crazy publishing situation, as most publishing situations tend to be these days, and all writers can relate to this: We’re only a...
Lots of laughs
Charlie Nadler arrived in the world at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital on July 11, 1984 — and I can attest to this because I...
Double the dads, double the fun
They did this last year at the M.V. Film Center, and no one asked them not to do it again. Longtime comedy writer and...
In Thoreau’s footsteps
Some of us, at various ages and stages, have fallen hard for the prince of the Concord woods, specifically the woods around the homey...
The Island’s great writing guru
When you walk into Aronie’s decades-old Chilmark Writing Workshop — or maybe you stagger in, if you’re as nervous about taking up the wordsmith...