Monthly Archives: September 2012
SJS 4 MVC on FB
My campaign for the MVC is now legit: it’s got its own Facebook page. Travvy is my campaign manager. If you’re not on Facebook, you probably can’t see it (if you aren’t but you can, let me know!). Here’s what … Continue reading
Nothing Happening
A while back (was it already a month ago??), I expressed some reservations about “laureation,” specifically the proliferation of poets laureate on Martha’s Vineyard. Lee Mccormack had just given his inaugural reading as Martha’s Vineyard’s first poet laureate. Lee is … Continue reading
Clueless in Candidateland
Classic story beginning: “Remember the night we all got drunk and . . .” Followed by the often hilarious recounting of adventures that made perfect sense at the time but in retrospect look totally off-the-wall. Way back last spring I … Continue reading
The Key Sestina
This poem came back to me while I was writing yesterday’s blog. When I lived in D.C., my keys wore holes in the hip pocket of my jeans. On Martha’s Vineyard I carried no keys at all. This might have … Continue reading
Insularity
When I moved from Washington, D.C., to Martha’s Vineyard in 1985 — just for a year, mind you — I expected some culture shock. D.C. is a big city. In the mid-1980s, more than three-quarters of the population was black. … Continue reading
In the Midst of Life
My blog posts usually start with a kernel, a seed, something nagging at the back of my mind. Words coalesce around the irritant, and though pearls rarely result, insight often does. At least the irritant becomes less irritating. Since the … Continue reading
Primary
I’m sorry to report that Sam Sutter lost his Democratic primary race to represent the new Massachusetts 9th District in Congress. The upside is that Bristol County gets to keep its hardworking and effective district attorney. I blogged last month … Continue reading
A Miracle
This guest blog is by Shirley W. Mayhew of West Tisbury. Shirley is, among other things, a wonderful writer and photographer whose work has appeared in Martha’s Vineyard Magazine and other publications. She brought “A Miracle” to Cynthia Riggs’s Sunday … Continue reading
August License Plate Report
Nothing to report. No new plates, no new states. The map is no more green than it was at the end of July. It’s no less green either, true. This is good, but it’s also not surprising. Once a plate’s … Continue reading
From the Seasonally Occupied Territories . . . 