How to Live Until You’re 104
Yesterday’s NY Times included a story by Janny Scott about Brooke Astor, 104, who has been in the news about a lawsuit filed alleging bad things against her 84-year-old producer son. The story mentions that there are 1253 women aged 100-104 living in NY, and just 104 who are between […]
Things You Read on Planes
What I learned from reading today’s Daily Telegraph, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to London: In the Philippines, a large worm is devastating the centuries old system of terraces, upon which farmers grow their rice crops. Because of loss of forest habitat, a vociferous worm that grows up to six […]
She Finally Got Up her Nerve and Plunged In
The sultry afternoon lingered as we remained on vacation time…watches left on the bureau, looking only at that spot of white on my wrist. Walking through Edgartown, to the Reading Room, perched on its own causeway in the harbor, ‘no trespassing signs’ delineating the places where only Members are welcome. […]
The Man Israel Wants to Find Most
Sitting in the heated up house here on Cummings Way, reading the Wall St. Journal. The name Imad Mugniyah came up in a story about Hezbollah. He is the mastermind, schemer, bomber extraordinaire of Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Karby Laggett writes about this devious scary dude. “The man in charge of this […]
Finding our Own Little Beach at Katama Point
Yesterday in the stultifying heat, we made our way over to the outer harbor, to an oasis that the Land Bank has provided in and among huge waterside houses of the rich. A little path winds it’s way to the shoreline, and an osprey nest is located on the winding […]
Tony Sings at 80 and the World Loves Him
We’ve showered twice already today as the heat blazes down on us here on the island. Inside the house in the shade it’s not so bad, and we’ve got time to read the NY Times. A story today mentioned Tony Bennett’s 80th birthday tomorrow, and included these words about this […]
Watching a Cash Cow Earn its Keep in MV
Had to drive out for supplies today, so I entered the steamy car for a short drive to Morning Glory Farm, in Edgartown. The place must be a cash cow, as the parking lot is continually full of huge SUVs and the place is mobbed with soccer moms and rich […]
The World Stares into its Cellphone
Everyone here, it seems, is staring into a cellphone. Whether it’s burley contractor dude, pausing on a shovel, or high cheekboned Greenwich second-wife, in her white Yukon that barely fits on the little Edgartown streets, one and all they’re staring into that little one-inch screen. Contemplating a call, perhaps another […]