Megan Alley
Oak Bluffs: Gifts to support nonprofits
And here is May, the month of sun, warmer weather, less rain, flowers starting to bloom, May baskets, and Mother’s Day wishes. “Richer than...
Oak Bluffs: Remember to continue
Hip! Hip! Hurray! It’s the first Monday in May and after a few weeks' pause, what I will write next Monday will be in...
Oak Bluffs: Reflecting in a new light
Again this week we are awakening to rainy, overcast mornings. But the weather forecasters usually predict that the rain will dry out and the...
Oak Bluffs: Thanks to our essential workers
With the advent of a bit warmer weather, our days are now sandwiched between the bookends of rosy pink sunrises and fiery red sunsets....
Oak Bluffs: Keeping traditions
Spring has arrived here in its usually rainy, cool breezes with sunny days peeking in amongst the clouds. Monday last brought us howling winds...
Oak Bluffs: Necessity is the mother of invention
If April showers bring May flowers then our Island should be covered in blooms. Daffodils, crocus, and the always-faithful forsythia continue to smile at...
Oak Bluffs: Our lives have changed
“Blossom of the almond trees, April’s gift to April’s bees. Birthday ornament of spring, Flora’s fairest daughterling.” So said Sir Edwin Arnold, English poet....
Oak Bluffs: How our expectations have changed
“March is the month of expectation, the things we do not know.” So said Emily Dickinson, American poet. How our expectations have changed since...
Oak Bluffs: the effectiveness of quarantines
So sorry not to have a column last week but I finally gave in and realized that I needed to take a break and...
Oak Bluffs: Spring is in the air
As my phone continually rings, with the caller ID reading “unknown caller,” I have to patiently wait until it stops that sound, as I...
Oak Bluffs: Don’t forget to vote
“If there is spring in winter and winter in spring, the year won’t be good for anything.” So says my favorite “Old Farmer’s Almanac.”...
Oak Bluffs: Amazing grace
The red skies of morning are beautiful to see, but also bring warnings of storms approaching. Those signs have seemed to prove pretty accurate,...
Oak Bluffs: Oh deer
One of the happy sights in these dreary days is the frequent sighting, in our neighborhood, of deer wandering through the backyards or streets....
Oak Bluffs: Blossoms on the forsythia
Once more, this off-again, on-again cold and warmth have me changing my wardrobe plans every day, sometimes even more than once a day. I...
Oak Bluffs: Such a February face
“Why what’s the matter, that you have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?” From William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado...
Oak Bluffs: The silence of late January
A few samples of snowstorms and cold temperature, and yes, January has definitely arrived. Now when I watch the bird feeder, I not only...
Oak Bluffs: Perhaps we can do better
We are told that we will be receiving hard winter weather starting next week, and have we not been fortunate with the warming cycle...
Oak Bluffs: Welcome 2020
Welcome 2020 with good intentions and kind thoughts. As at other times, the start of a new year always brought hopes of peace for...
Oak Bluffs
Jan. 2, 2020 and here you are reading this column, the first one for the year 2020, which I am writing on Thursday, Dec....
Oak Bluffs: A box of decorations
This is a first for many of us, as our columns for Dec. 26 must be in by 9 am today, Dec. 18, the...