Category Archives: Martha’s Vineyard
Books Afoot
So last May, totally out of the blue, I get an email. I’m writing to ask if you might be interested and able to meet with a group of readers who will have read your novel, The Mud of the … Continue reading
Unstuck
Thursday I gave Malvina Forester a much-needed bath. Her color hides mud streaks and dirt well, but there are limits. So, do you notice anything different? Here’s a hint: Yeah, you got it: I took it off. We put up … Continue reading
Vineyard Exceptional
In 1985, when I moved to Martha’s Vineyard from the women’s community of Washington, D.C., I was expecting differences. Differences I found, you bet, but also surprising similarities. People in both places, for instance, were convinced they were special by … Continue reading
Rockin’ Jerusalem
I’ve blogged about Jim Thomas’s Spirituals Choir, in which I sing, a couple of times. See especially “Singing for Our Lives,” from July 2012, and “Sing All the Way,” from July of this year. This past weekend we sang at … Continue reading
Reality Check
Bob Lee died suddenly on August 11. His death was a shock: he’d been in poor health for some time, but he got around, sang and drummed in the M.V. Spirituals Choir, and frequented the West Tisbury post office — … Continue reading
MV on FB Update
When I’d been on Facebook a year, I blogged about it. This seems to be a universal truth: If you blog and if you use social media, sooner or later you will blog about social media. I was a late … Continue reading
Directions
On our morning walk Travvy and I came to the end of Pine Hill. Across Old County, in the little parking area for the big meadow, was a burgundy sedan. Cars are not exactly rare in this little parking area, … Continue reading
August License Plate Report
Only one new sighting in August — the Alabama plate I spotted on Kennebec Ave. in Oak Bluffs while cruising for a parking place so I could do my grocery shopping — but it’s a good omen. Last year I … Continue reading
Roundabooboo
Around midday yesterday a Honda sedan hit the curb at the roundabout hard enough to deploy both airbags and send the driver to the hospital with what initial reports indicate (and we’re hoping) are fairly minor injuries. The Martha’s Vineyard … Continue reading
Our Challenge
When the Obamas vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, they don’t stay as long as the Clintons did. This is good, not because I begrudge the president a long vacation but because it gives the press corps less down time to run … Continue reading
From the Seasonally Occupied Territories . . . 