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The Sidebar: About Those Color Collages
I hope this will answer some questions!
Feb 19
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The Long Goodbye
Dec 15, 2024
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The Peace of Wild Bunnies
Feb 1
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Ten Reasons to Travel
Nov 2, 2025
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Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Jan 18
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What the Oxen and the Mermaids Know
Bread and sunshine and great beasts and mythical creatures give me hope that the thaw will come.
Feb 15
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Goodnight, Kennedy Center
We promise to wake you when the nightmare is over.
Feb 8
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The Peace of Wild Bunnies
With apologies to Wendell Berry, I am traveling the bunny highway and looking for grace.
Feb 1
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Fight or Flight?
For an alcoholic, “doing a geographic” is a knee-jerk response to anxiety. But anger is a more powerful force than anxiety, one that argues for staying…
Jan 26
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Garden Gram No. 27: Ten Favorite Yellow Flowers to Grow
Sunshine on a cloudy day.
Jan 23
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Serenity and Sobriety
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Fight or Flight?
For an alcoholic, “doing a geographic” is a knee-jerk response to anxiety. But anger is a more powerful force than anxiety, one that argues for staying…
Jan 26
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Brown is the New Green
In spite of Pantone’s egregious error, brown will be my color this year. And I will feel grounded and connected to the land – this land, my landscape…
Jan 19, 2025
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Skipping Generations – Or Not
If Nana had gotten the help I've had, how would things have been different?
Sep 7, 2024
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On the Cusp of Gratitude
Kick the resentment habit, give yourself a break, and feed the good wolf.
May 12, 2024
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Field Notes: The State of Things
Being here is all that.
May 5, 2024
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The Story of Your Life
How a new book is making me rethink mine
Mar 30, 2025
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Everything, All At Once.
A time-out would be nice, but the moon and the stars will have to do.
Nov 10, 2024
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Where My Feet Want Me to Go
Maybe they know more than my head does.
Oct 20, 2024
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Skipping Generations – Or Not
If Nana had gotten the help I've had, how would things have been different?
Sep 7, 2024
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Firefly
a poem
Jun 23, 2024
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Flowers
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Garden Gram #21: Flowering Perennials — For Cut Flowers, Think Beyond Annuals
Plus: Spotlight on alliums, two new garden books, seed snails
Mar 14, 2025
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Garden Gram #9: An Historic Iris Collection
Playing hooky on a workday got me a timely view of a Vineyard iris collection in bloom.
May 31, 2024
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Garden Gram #6: A Flower-Filled Week and the Golden Tulip
Saving the best for last - a photo essay.
May 3, 2024
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Garden Gram #5: Daffy Garden Video Tour, Double Tulip Gudoshnik, Pansy Potting Extravaganza
Since I sent the last Garden Gram, a few weeks went by in a blur of work and travel to see Dad.
Apr 26, 2024
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What the Flowering Trees Know
Beauty and time are equally fleeting; being present to both is the gratitude that saves me.
Apr 21, 2024
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Food and Cooking
My New Friend, the EpiPen: When a Food Writer Has Food Allergies.
Really bad ones. Not good.
Feb 25, 2024
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Cook the Vineyard’s Thanksgiving Recipe Collection
A great source for holiday planning plus a Gruyere Potato Galette recipe.
Nov 15, 2023
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The Sidebar: Sir Tony, Crispy Potatoes, and the Color of Serotonin
— plus how to stay warm, well-lit (but not lit) and fit
Jan 15, 2023
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Martha's Vineyard
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What the Oxen and the Mermaids Know
Bread and sunshine and great beasts and mythical creatures give me hope that the thaw will come.
Feb 15
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And Yet We Go On Living
The wind is relentless, the windows rattle, the chill seeps. But we are warm and safe, with beauty to spare. How are we so lucky when others are not?
Apr 7, 2024
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Why Would You Want to Live on An Island?
For me, the answer to the question of 'Why Martha's Vineyard?' lies in my heart, not in my head.
Nov 12, 2023
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My Vineyard
My Island home is so very different from the Martha's Vineyard others see.
Feb 5, 2023
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Love Letter in the Snow: An Act of Faith
Safe in the snow-globe world, the plot thickens.
Jan 22, 2023
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Nature
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Beauty and The Weeds
Where the miracles hide
May 4, 2025
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When the Wild Roses Bloom
Go.
Jun 16, 2024
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A Snake in the Rose Trellis
Summer creatures, great and small.
Jun 2, 2024
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The Understory
Between here and there, what lies between.
May 26, 2024
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Field Notes: The State of Things
Being here is all that.
May 5, 2024
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