Valerie Sonnenthal

Whenever I travel, at some point there's usually a Vineyard connection. This week my husband hired a Hopi guide to take us to a...

I really looked forward to heading out to the Chilmark Potluck Jam, which I apologize for not mentioning in last week's column. I made...

Holiday highlights included both my sons being home, Cynthia Riggs reading me A.A. Milne's King John's Christmas, enjoying our Thanksgiving feast on Christmas, loving...

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”  –Hamilton Wright MabieI grew up with a single mother, a...

Besides beautiful weather, fog, and rain, there have been a plethora of holiday activities from the Chilmark Flea to the last Farmers Market, concerts,...

The pews at the Chilmark Church were packed for Lia Kahler's second “Offerings of Music and Light,” with another amazing group of talented Islanders...

On Sunday I had the opportunity to participate in Lia Kahler's first Offerings of Music and Light, with an amazing group of talented Islanders...

It's time with family and friends, taking walks, cooking, catching up, playing with animals, rebalancing our inner selves between the comfort of always and...

her words lost like snowfalling gentlyon a spring lawnher breath drawnin silenceexhaling white mistshe is soundvibrating mantrasring every cellshe is earthgathering the fallenlimbs for...

Happy Thanksgiving. The Dorper sheep have been moved back from Tea Lane and are grazing nearby. Lucy Vincent has been abuzz with locals and...

It was brought to my attention that last week I failed to mention Alfred Hall of Edgartown, who is credited with saving the town...

I have been moved to tears many times since the tragedy at the Tree of Life Synagogue, a marker of an uncomfortable shift in...

Updated Nov. 2I first connected with Lydia Fischer when I heard a clip of her singing. Her voice is smooth, and keys into a...

Don't forget to turn back your clocks on Saturday night. Hunting season has started, so please be sure to wear bright clothes if you...

Over the summer I did not run into one of my regular swimming friends, and was shocked to learn that Carol Weichert passed away...

A hazy sunrise at Lucy Vincent Beach brought Alison Shaw's photography students out besides surfers, regulars, dogs, and other walkers. There's been a spate...

It was wonderful to pull into our library parking lot on Friday of the long weekend to a completely full lot, park with the...

A little over a month prior to a planned arrival, the library and I heard from Mike Scott, “Deputy Editor/Treasurer of the Chilmark Village...

I can't recall who told me to contact Jimmy Morgan and interview him about his paintings, model wooden ships, and relief scenes, but I...

It was extremely disturbing to find out after last week's column was published that Ed Jerome had passed away. Although my children went to...