Kay Mayhew
Tisbury: ‘Beyond the Mask’
Heard on Main Street: It's a lot easier to get older than it is to get wiser.
April is Poetry Month and a few Island...
Tisbury: Library community room
Heard on Main Street: This happened yesterday and is important information. A friend had his second dose of the COVID vaccine in New Zealand...
Tisbury: Composting food waste
Heard on Main Street: Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy...
Tisbury: William Faulkner books
Heard on Main Street: It used to be only death and taxes. Now, of course, there's shipping and handling too.
Last week I enjoyed a...
Tisbury: Stress relief kits
Heard on Main Street: Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, or the smallest act of caring...
Tisbury: Vineyard oral history
Heard on Main Street: We don’t realize how wonderful today is until tomorrow.
In our latest storm, my phone and email connection went down. Fortunately,...
Tisbury: Family memories
Heard on Main Street: Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?
You may not know this, but very shaky hands can do wonders to...
Tisbury: Being neighborly
Heard on Main Street: If all is not lost, where is it?
Now every time I go on Zoom, I worry that I will look...
Tisbury: A case for Respectacle
Heard on Main Street: Think about it. War does not determine who is right — only who is left.
The best reason to get the...
Tisbury: Winter distractions
Heard on Main Street: Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is...
Tisbury: Vaccinations
Heard on Main Street: I do read The Times, pretty much all of the time. Don Keller surprised me; he wrote that he’d read...
Tisbury: Peace on Earth
Heard on Main Street: Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, it seems it may be wiser to sleep late.
I...
Tisbury: Reading and knitting
Heard on Main Street: When I make a typo on my password, why doesn’t the computer correct that?
Why is it that when the air...
Tisbury: ‘The Splendid and the Vile’
Heard on Main Street: New Year’s resolution: Do whatever your Rice Krispies tell you to do.
I used to hear my brother-in-law speak with a...
Tisbury: Staying safe in the new year
Heard on Main Street: You understand the 12 Days of Christmas are necessary to allow time for the holiday mail to arrive. That’s why...
Tisbury: Sending Christmas cards
Heard on Main Street: I’ve learned so much from my mistakes, I’m thinking of making a few more.
Santa’s last minute hint: Are you out...
Tisbury: Holiday memories
Heard on Main Street: Be naughty. Save Santa the trip.
I just finished listening to a book called “Lady in Waiting – My Extraordinary Life...
Tisbury: Community Wishing Tree
Heard on Main Street: Last week the weatherman predicted “snow as heavy as Mom’s mashed potatoes.”
The Wishing Tree at 124 William St. is waiting...
Tisbury: Small Wonders Show
Heard on Main Street: The closer the roll of toilet paper gets to the end, the faster it goes. Maybe that is why so...
Tisbury: One-way streets
Heard on Main Street: The buttons on my jeans have started social distancing from each other.
Friends are what keep us going during these times....