Edgartown: Figure skating show, egg hunts, handling anger, Island Alpaca, and plant nurseries
I’m writing this week’s column from the reservation line in Woods Hole. Is there anything more painful than the car ahead of you in the standby line being the last car on the boat...
Edgartown: Weekend tourists, school benefit race, social security, and annual hockey game
March in New England. One day it’s 50° out. The next day it’s 30° out. Or it’s a beautiful spring day, with a nor’easter on the horizon. Luckily, last week’s nor’easter didn’t turn into...
Edgartown: M.V. Museum grant, Mending for Sustainability, poetry workshop, and Woman’s Club of M.V.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day on Friday, the one day of the year when everyone is Irish. I’m lucky enough to be Irish every day, which definitely shows in the winter. I get so pale...
Edgartown: Daylight Saving, chef Look, Meat Ball, weaving workshop, and Community Sing
Greetings, and happy March. I guess it kind of came in like a lion, with wind and some rain and canceled boats. Perhaps that means the rest of the month won’t be so bad,...
Edgartown: Neighborhood Convention and M.V. Garden Club, ice skating, and community suppers
As I write, we are on the verge of February school break. The Island should be extra quiet this week, as families make the mass exodus from the Island. It seems like an even...
Edgartown: Ayurveda, kids’ paint group, finding animal tracks, and fly-tying lessons
It’s February. You know what that means. Well, maybe you don’t. But in this house, it means it’s time for the Daytona 500. While it isn’t a major event in my life, my husband,...
Edgartown: Alpaca Walk and Talk, Community Supper, school fun run, and winter balance
Do you have flowers popping up already? We do. And I hope they are right and spring is right around the corner. I can’t believe how many are popping up around the yard and...
Edgartown: Weather preparations, fundraisers for schools, Valentine’s pop-up, and homemade pasta
Well, that was some weekend weather, wasn’t it? Thank goodness the frigid temperatures and wind didn’t also bring snow! I heard so many people discussing the upcoming forecast last week, and we all reverted...
Edgartown: Clearing clutter, winter balance, Herb Foster memorial, and Tom Dresser’s travel talk
Sorry to miss my column last week. Honestly, I was buried up to my ears cleaning out my father’s house with my siblings, in preparation to sell it, and just couldn’t piece together anything...
Edgartown: Vineyard of youth, cooking classes, film screening, and Council on Aging
This week’s column is coming to you live from the Hilton at Logan Airport. Well, by the time you read it, I’ll be back home. But tonight, I’m hanging out at the airport hotel...
Edgartown: Navigator Homes benefit, M.V. Table Tennis Club, and Speechcraft
I know that it is March that has the old saying “In like a lion, out like a lamb,” but January certainly came in like a lamb. We had some incredibly beautiful weather last...
Edgartown: Edgartown School PTA meeting, Owl Prowl at Felix Neck, and Fire Cider
Happy 2023! May this year be gentle and easy, and bring us all even closer to “normal.” I am not making resolutions, nor planning to promise huge improvements in who I am. Baby steps...
Edgartown: Hats off to the EPD, hunkering down, and Happy New Year to us...
Well, we actually had a white Christmas. Though I’m not a fan of snow, as you know, it certainly did make for a beautiful and tranquil feeling for the holiday, and actually help boost...
Edgartown: Library open mic night, and Winter solstice on Wednesday
As I write this, it is exactly one week till Christmas. I don’t know about you, but I am definitely not ready. I bought presents early this year, and now I don’t know where...
Edgartown: Looking at lights, and Paint Pour Parties
I realized this weekend, as I wandered around the Edgartown School Craft Fair and watched the Christmas parade, that I am lacking holiday cheer this year. 2022 has been a tough year, and I’m...
Edgartown: Edgartown School Craft Fair, and Stuff-a-Bus
My first Christmas present arrived this weekend, when I traveled to Connecticut to pick up the girl child upon her return from her European adventures. After many restaurants, museums, relics, beaches, castles, paragliding, buses,...
Edgartown: Island Alpaca open house, “The Polar Express” showing, and Edgartown School Winter Concert
I don’t know about you, but I’m still full from Thanksgiving, and yet we are in full swing into the Christmas season now. I’m not complaining, believe me. I love this time of year,...
Edgartown: Tough week at Edgartown School, and Dickensian Christmas Village
Happy Thanksgiving week! I can’t believe it’s late November already. Well, the temperatures the last few days are doing their best to convince me but part of me feels like we were only relaxing...
Edgartown: Morning yoga at the library, and Lucas Ostinato Trio
I’m feeling so refreshed and revived tonight as I write. We got a weekend away to New Hampshire and just a couple of days away with no work, relaxing, shopping, and eating a lot...
Edgartown: Tech time, school banking, and thank a veteran
I’m writing tonight on the eve of Pop’s 94th birthday, my first ever without the old man around. I’m struggling with it, for sure. I plan to swim in his honor, as he used...