Nicole Galland
Can I have a ride?
Bemused readers ask novelist Nicole Galland for her take on navigating the precarious social landscape that comes with living on the Vineyard. Nicole, who...
MV P’s & Q’s: electric shock
Bemused readers ask novelist Nicole Galland for her take on navigating the precarious social landscape that comes with living on the Vineyard. Nicole, who...
MV P’s & Q’s: Noisy libraries
Bemused readers ask novelist Nicole Galland for her take on navigating the precarious social landscape that comes with living on the Vineyard. Nicole, who...
Heating houseguests and unleashed dogs
Bemused readers ask novelist Nicole Galland for her take on navigating the precarious social landscape that comes with living on Martha’s Vineyard. Nicole, who...
The jumper, and How do I get to Oaks Bluff?
How do I get to Oaks Bluff?
The new girlfriend and when does 1 menorah = 52 masses?
Bemused readers ask novelist Nicole Galland for her take on navigating the precarious social landscape that comes with living on the Vineyard. Nicole, who...
The deer hunter
Bemused readers ask novelist Nicole Galland for her take on navigating the precarious social landscape that comes with living on the Vineyard. Nicole, who...
The bow hunter’s dilemma
Bemused readers ask novelist Nicole Galland for her take on navigating the precarious social landscape that comes with living on the Vineyard. Nicole, who...
Single with Turkey and Small Island
Inviting Turkey and Connected Island
Gluten glutton and tipping a teacher
Bemused readers ask novelist Nicole Galland for her take on navigating the precarious social landscape that comes with living on the Vineyard. Nicole, who...
Cronig’s car confusion & cell phones
Not my Car and Calls while Walking
Derby Dilemma and Dumptique Etiquette
Derby dilemma and the Dumptiques
Derby Dilemmas
Derby Dilemmas
Stop Talking & Beach Plum Poaching
Stop the Talking and Stealing Beach Plums
After Obama
After Obama
Seasonal Status and Exed Out
Seasonal status and exed out.
Hiring a friend’s kid & Anonymous greetings
You’re not obligated to do something that goes against your own interests unless perhaps her father is in the Mafia. If she’s not a good match for the job, don’t hire her. That’s an easy call. The harder call is figuring out how to break the news to both parent and child with minimal damage.
Grieving in public
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
MV $, selfies with celebs & retake on (not) hospitalized neighbor
It’s generally considered poor taste to talk or write about money, but money is weird on the Vineyard in ways that it isn’t weird most other places. There is often zero relationship between one’s income, class, educational/cultural/financial background, social standing and innate hipness. It’s part of our cultural make-up that people from totally different financial realities casually cluster together and feel good about it.
Piping Puppies and Hospital Privacy
I’ll go even farther: let’s say you and your dog have a special mystical relationship with the plovers and they actually consider you a part of their tribe. They have asked you, during a vision-quest, to please walk around the dunes with your dog at the start of their nesting season.